Nice. When I installed 'smbclient' via apt-get, it automatically set up the backend/smb symlink for me. At that point, it was just a matter of selecting the correct pull down (... via Samba) from the CUPS HTML administration page (which wasn't there w/o smbclient) and giving it the network address.
That Rox0r5. Thanks, Rob > On 20021005.1436, Jacob Meuser said ... > > On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 11:43:55AM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > > I've got cups installed and my printer is supported via cups and gimp-print. > > What I can't figure out is how to tell cups to print to the printer which is > > on my wife's computer on win2k. Any ideas? > > Here's how I do such a thing (I'm already using SAMBA): > > Link the smbspool program from SAMBA to 'smb' in CUPS' backend directory. > > $ ls -l /usr/local/libexec/cups/backend/smb > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 23 Sep 3 21:08 /usr/local/libexec/cups/backend/smb -> >/usr/local/bin/smbspool > > I think the default CUPS backend directory is /usr/lib/cups/backend > in Linux. > > Then restart CUPS (you may have to actually shut it down and start it > again, I'm not sure if kill -HUP will work). Then add the printer. > Use "Windows Printer via SAMBA" as the device. > > If you're not using SAMBA, then use IPP. I've not been able to get the > IPP add-on to work on Win98, but I believe it comes with new Win*. > There's a fair amount of documentation on using IPP that comes with > CUPS -> http://localhost:631/documentation.html. > > -- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _______________________________________________ > Eug-LUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
