Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:
>
>> You ever thought of using webmin?  I think webmin will help set this
>> up.  Just a thought.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>
> Honestly, there was nothing webmin was really going to do for me.
> There were two lines to be uncommented in the /etc/cups/mimes files.
> After that everything else was done on the Windows computers to get
> this to work. I honestly didn't have to change much to get Windows
> working. It was more finding out what driver to use on Windows so that
> it would just talk to cups and then understand the format of the
> address for the Windows printer setup.
>
> I've now tested my Vista machine. It works fine and Vista actually had
> an HP driver for this printer so I used that driver since the Adobe
> postscript driver doesn't install on Vista. From Vista I can print in
> color on the cups printer. On the XP machine using the generic
> postscript driver I get black & white.
>
> - Mark
>
>
>

I know I had webmin installed for a long time but rarely used it.  I
just couldn't remember if I used it for setting up printing from windoze
or not. 

At least you got it working.  That's what matters.

Dale

:-)  :-)