John Wrote: >Where I work (a small shop, by any standards), we have several printers. >Some talk ipp, some have sockets on port 9100 and (maybe) some do lpd.
>Whatever the printers do, we set up a Linux server to print to them. >Linux just finds them on the printer server. Recently, OS X does too, >one just has to look a little harder. >We don't have enough Windows boxes (mostly, just one that's relevant) to >do anything automatic with, I configure them manually to print using >http to the Linux server. Probably, SAMBA is a better way to go. In our >setup, Windows does need the driver; CUPS serves PPDs to anyone that >asks, but Windows doesn't ask. We have setup similar. One Linux guest running SAMBA/CUPS with all the printers added to CUPS. We made sure we had the correct PPD on CUPS and the correct driver on the Win/XP workstation for test printing to SAMBA/CUPS. This was really to try the mechanics of printing from Windows and from Linux to printers on Linux SAMBA/CUPS. As you stated only Linux prints to the printers. No printing from Win/XP directly to the printer. Now we want to setup and test a way to auto setup or define on Win/XP workstation one of the printers on SAMBA/CUPS the same way it is done using Windows Printing where you pull up the list of printers and click on the printer you want to setup on your workstation in order to print from Win/XP to the printer defined on Linux SAMBA/CUPS. Thanks ................ Regards, Terry L. Spaulding [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
