On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:48:50PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how > > to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. > > Why SAMBA? >
Also, a small addendum/caveat: I *did* install cups with samba USE enabled. But I did not, during this exercise, use the samba server at all. Samba was never running. I am not sure whether the samba USE makes a difference at all, since the article I linked to suggest that Windows plays well with IPP. Insofar as the link from the gentoo forum is concerned: its main advantage over the one I used is that you don't have to load the printer driver on every computer in your network (I have only two windows boxes to deal with). W -- Willie W. Wong [email protected] 408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
