Re: CUPS alternative
Windows XP, vista, and 7 happily will print to a lpd printer. In the windows world this is called a port, and, lpd is one of the options. It's 12 pages of idiot blather, but, you can see the XP setup (or maybe 2000 setup) here: ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Printserver/dp300U/QIG/DP300U_QIG_100.zip Vista and 7 are basically the same, with a bit more waiting around while windows tries to be intelligent and ports scans your network to find printer. cheers bruce
Re: CUPS alternative
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:23 AM, open...@pckswarms.ch wrote: Windows XP, vista, and 7 happily will print to a lpd printer. In the windows world this is called a port, and, lpd is one of the options. It's 12 pages of idiot blather, but, you can see the XP setup (or maybe 2000 setup) here: ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Printserver/dp300U/QIG/DP300U_QIG_100.zip Thanks!
Re: CUPS alternative
Predrag Punosevac wrote: I know very little about Windows but I would swear that I have seen or read that Windows can speak LPD printing protocol. I also have no knowledge of Samba but I would swear that I read somewhere that supports LPD. Yes, windows speaks LPD. I just don't know anything about Vista and later, though -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -- Robert Heinlein
CUPS alternative
Hi. I need to print from Windows machines to an OpenBSD box using IPP. Is CUPS the only software that will let me do this? CUPS is huge, buggy and full of security holes. Wants to only run as root as well. Thanks.
Re: CUPS alternative
nixlists nixmlists () gmail ! com wrote: Hi. I need to print from Windows machines to an OpenBSD box using IPP. Is CUPS the only software that will let me do this? CUPS is huge, buggy and full of security holes. Wants to only run as root as well. Thanks. To my knowledge CUPS is the only spooling system available for Unix which speaks IPP even though Patrick Powell who developed LPRng was one of original IPP developers as well. LPRng should have been able to work as IPP gateway as of 4.0 but there is no LPRng 4.0 and Patrick has abandoned LPRng around 2005. I am not really sure if LPRng can speak IPP. I know very little about Windows but I would swear that I have seen or read that Windows can speak LPD printing protocol. I also have no knowledge of Samba but I would swear that I read somewhere that supports LPD. Best, Predrag
