Windows hosted printers should work from Solaris Nevada. If you bring
up the printmgr and add a "New Network Printer", you should be able to
select "URI" for the protocol, and set the destination to an SMB uri
(smb://window-box/printer). Since Windows expects the client side to
generate printer ready output, you need to make sure and select a
make/model that matches the printer so foomatic-rip will generate
printer-ready output.
-Norm
Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
> 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
>
>
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