On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi Willie, > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong <ww...@princeton.edu> wrote: > > (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I > > wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) > > > > 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? > > > > I've recently set up printing for a small home network following this > > guide: http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html > > > > Basically you just need > > > > 1) Correct permissions in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf > > a) You need the line "Port 631" to allow remote access > > b) Maybe (I am not sure about this one) you need "Browsing On" > > to allow sharing? > > c) You need the section for "<Location />" to have "Allow From > > 192.168.0.*" or whatever netmask you use. > > 2) Either > > a) A working printer that you can print locally from the cups > > server via "lpr -P<NAME>". In this case you can just tell > > the Windows computers to print to > > http://<cups server ip>:631/printers/<NAME> > > using a generic postscript driver. > > Is this true for non-postscript printers? If so it's a great solution. > > I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI: > > http://192.168.1.59:631/printers > > It gives me a long, ugly descriptive name for the printer so I tried: > > lpr -P HP_PSC_1600_series_USB_1 optimize_mythdb.sh > > which did print correctly so I'm good to go so far. > > > or > > b) A working printer for which you have the Windows drivers. You > > The Windows driver for this printer does not support network printing > so I don't think this is an option.
You shouldn't need a MS Windows network printing enabled driver to do this (with an lpd printer), nor a Samba client on your Linux boxen for that matter. Have a look here: http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sls-archives/archives-linux-tweaks/archives-howtos-discussions/378052-printing-linux-lpd-printer-no-samba-required.html -- Regards, Mick
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