On Tue, 2018-03-06 at 07:44 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Have you considered implementing the other Microsoft way, which I'm > not sure how to do as I'm not a network technician but which a number > of organizations tend to do, and that is when the client does a > network browse for network printers, selects the printer that they > want to use, the server downloads and installs the driver on the > client machine? > Admittedly, this still requires the client to prepare the data for > printing, but at least the server or the printer itself handles the > queuing of print jobs.
Still a damn awful way to do things. It gets even hairier if all your client computers are different OSs. Microsoft, and even MacOS are still crap at handling printers. Just the other week, I turned on the printer, and the OS insisted on installing drivers for the printer. Despite the fact that drivers were already installed, and fully operational. Even with a stand-alone networked printer, I still set it up to be accessible through the LAN server. That way any Linux box can print easily through it without the shenanigans of specially setting up that printer on each and every PC. I don't know at what stage the original poster discovered CUPs being a backwards designed schmozzle, but I'm sure it was working the old and good way on my latest Fedora 26 installation. I can't check now, the motherboard went kablooey, last week. And I'm back on an old Fedora 25 installation on my ancient laptop. Not to mention that my LAN file & printer server is completely ancient, and still on Fedora Core 4. -- [tim@localhost ~] -rsvp Linux 4.13.16-100.fc25.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Nov 27 19:52:46 UTC 2017 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
