Ghee Teo wrote: > Bill Shannon wrote: >> Afshin Salek wrote: >> >>> Solaris CIFS server does not print sharing yet (only file sharing >>> for now) so yes you'll need Samba for that. >>> >> >> Well, I didn't expect the cifs server to do it, but I thought maybe >> CUPS would handle it directly, like it does with lpd and ipp. >> > CUPS doesn't handle windows print share directly, it uses Samba, > typically it requires a link of /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb to > /usr/sfw/bin/smbspool. On Linux, this is done out of the box since CUPS > is the only print system there. Our version of Samba is a bit dated, > 3.0.x whereas the stable version of Samba from most Linux is 3.2.x. But > this is hard acts for us to get uprev as it is now relicensed to GPL V3.
Assuming that you mean when a Windows clients prints using a UNIX system as a print server, that depends on how you specify/find your printer. If you browse for a shared printer you may find it via Samba but SMB isn't a native CUPS protocol. I believe that CUPS natively supports IPP, JetDirect and LPD. You can use IPP directly from Windows by specifying a local printer on a TCP/IP port. Alan _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
