Actually, I'm going to be using this server as a print server (among other things) for windows clients. Which is more suitable for that?
Thanks, Greg -----Original Message----- From: Ghee.Teo at Sun.COM [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 11:11 AM To: Terkanian, Greg Cc: printing-discuss at opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [printing-discuss] ipp in snv_99 Terkanian, Greg wrote: > What are the compelling reasons that I should chose cups over lp? > I just thought you have a particular liking for IPP, and CUPS is another print system based primarily on IPP and other bits of course. It is also available on OpenSolaris now since build 87. It works very well with the desktop apps once you figure out how to create the queues. Of course, we don't yet have a GUI that works on OpenSolaris. This is being worked on though. -Ghee > PS > Thanks for the prompt responses. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ghee.Teo at Sun.COM [mailto:Ghee.Teo at Sun.COM] > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 8:34 AM > To: Terkanian, Greg > Cc: printing-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [printing-discuss] ipp in snv_99 > > Greg Terkanian wrote: > >> Never mind. I'm dumb. I had a hard time figuring out if apache was >> > installed. It wasn't. "pkg install SUNWapch" (why it's named this and > not SUNWapache is beyond me) > Engineers in SUN tends to like abbreviations though historical there > was a limitation of the length of package name. Now the new max length > has been extended to 32 which gives a bit more options. Also It may have > > also be ended with 'r' to refer to packages to install on root related > and 'u; to refer to user as the general recommendeation. However, I > think this is going away with IPS. > >> solved my issues. I guess my next question is how did ipp-listener >> > get installed without this important dependency? Also, how to integrate > this with apache2.2. > >> >> > The problem is that there is limited room on live CD and initial > install. ipp-listener is part of the LP print system module, that is why > > it get pull in, but its dependency on apache can't not be automatically > pulled in as that will simply ended up witha live DVD :) > > If you are going to use ipp, why do you try CUPS? > You need SUNWcups, SUNWcups-libs > The you can switch by running > /usr/sbin/print-service -s cups > to switch to cups > or > /usr/sbin/print-service -s lp > to switch to lp. > > No sure how to do apache2.2, check http://pkg.opensolaris.org is apache > is there or not. > > -Ghee > >> Thanks. >> >> > >
