On 12/02/08 10:53, Bill Shannon wrote: > Alan.M.Wright wrote: >> 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. > > I'm hoping not to have to reconfigure all my Windows clients when I > replace my old Solaris+Samba server with my new OpenSolaris server. > The first stumbling block was guest access, which may be solvable > without changes on the clients, but it looks like the need to support > printers means I'm stuck with Samba. > > I think I asked this already, but... Are there any long term plans to > integrate SMB printer support with the cifs kernel support so that both > can coexist on the same system (without using zones, of course)?
As soon as someone volunteers to write the SPOOLSS backend. The RPC service and named pipe are already in place - it just needs tied into libipp or equivalent. I'd really like to see this happen but we have no available resources to work on it. Alan _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
