On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 10:00 -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > the issues experienced trying to setup printers in Solaris, its a > > nightmare > > One thing I wouldn't mind seeing is CUPS + Gutenprint + Foomatic - given > Foomatic and Gutenprint are in Solaris today. Foomatic is reasonably > current, but could use an update. We are in the process of updating > things like Gutenprint and GhostScript to something more current. If > you use the print manager (/usr/bin/printmgr) to create your print > queues it should be reasonably simple. In Nevada build 69, there is a > new desktop applet ospm-applet, that watches the HAL device tree for new > printers and will automatically create print queues for you (it can be > entirely hands off or require your input depending on preferences) see > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/presto/ for more information. > CUPS is available on the companion for Solaris and I believe that it's > also built and packaged on Nexenta and Belenix. The companion version > is being updated as I write this. > > -Norm
Its mainly the trying to access a printer over the network which is being shared from a windows machine. Is there some way to push the file directly to the printer avoiding the need to have a driver on the desktop? Applications such as Firefox can't detect the newly created queue's for example. There isn't the ability to install ppd files, for example. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
