It's very important that your CUPS configuration allows printing from
your local network. If not, Windows won't see it. Check your
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf to make sure it allows printing from other than
localhost.
Michael Powell wrote:
Gary,
Thanks! I think there must be slightly more to it, though. If I give
it that address (or anything like it), Win98 reports that the printer is
offline & that I can install it but can't print to it until it returns
online. Since it is online, that tells me something is not quite
right.
If I type that address into a web browser on the Windows machine, it
does show up. But there is something about it that the Windows print
manager does not like.
I tried it as you have it typed below, as well as:
\\server:631\printers\printername
Windows does not like either one.
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:47:33 -0400
Gary Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You don't need Samba to print. As long as you set up your CUPS
configuration to allow other local addresses to print to the server, you
can print to it from windows using
http://<servername>:631/printers/<printername>, where you replace
<servername> and <pritnername> with the appropriate values. <servername>
can also be an IP address.
If this works, you can also (but don't have to) set up the printer to be
shared via Samba by adding a section to your Samba configuration. I
recommend that you use SWAT for this - it makes it easy.
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