On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 11:55 -0400, Jim Ramsay wrote: > > * "ipp://hostname/printers/printername" which in my case would > > be "ipp://vishnu.fmp.com/printers/hpdj_1120c (or I can substitute > > the LAN IP address for the hostname) > > > > * "http://hostname:631/ipp/queue"; which appears to translate > to > > "http://vishnu.fmp.com:631/ipp/queue"; with no specification > > for the printer in the URI. Since the hpdj_1120c doesn't have a > > queue specified in cups, I assume this URI should be used > > literally. > > I've done this with great success. On my Linux box, for example, I > have a printer called "Engineering", and I use the following URI > in my WinXP box (running inside a VM): > > http://10.8.50.71:631/printers/Engineering
Thanks. This is _really_ good to know. I've played numerous variations on the URI syntax and never seemed to get it right. CUPS documentation tells one how to connect via CUPS to an exported printer elsewhere, but not very well how CUPS exports printers for use elsewhere. I basically bombed on this project. I followed directions to load PS drivers via samba, and that didn't work, so now I need to find out how to UNload them from Windows, which wants to attach the printer to the previously downloaded driver willy-nilly. Editing the registry didn't help. I'll apparently have to go find the drivers and expunge them from the C:\windows\system32 directory tree. I have a RAW printer configured in CUPS, which ought to help. The main purpose of this was give access to a printer from a VMware guest installation of Windows XP. I ended up solving the problem by connecting XP directly to the printer port via the virtual parallel port expressed in VMware. This works considerably better with VMware 6 than it did with VMware 5, so for now I'm OK with the problem. If I can figure out how to expunge the drivers altogether from XP I'll take another crack at it via shares. This facility is fairly complex to set up and and the documentation for it sux. CUPS documentation is absolutely abominable, and the Gentoo HOWTO docs have errors that should be corrected, e.g. setting 'printcap name' to 'cups' in smb.conf doesn't work, although all the docs tell one to do this. CUPS maintains a printcap at /etc/printcap and this should be the value of 'printcap name' in smb.conf, in which case individual printers don't need to be defined explicitly in smb.conf but are exported as shares through the '[printers]' section. -- Lindsay Haisley | "In an open world, | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | who needs Windows | available at 512-259-1190 | or Gates" | http://pubkeys.fmp.com http://www.fmp.com | | -- [email protected] mailing list
