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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:44:06
Message-Id: 200812172144.00684.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions? by Mark Knecht
1 On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > Hi Willie,
3 >
4 > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu> wrote:
5 > > (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I
6 > > wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent)
7 > >
8 > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
9 > >> I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how
10 > >> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows.
11 > >
12 > > Why SAMBA?
13 > >
14 > > I've recently set up printing for a small home network following this
15 > > guide: http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html
16 > >
17 > > Basically you just need
18 > >
19 > > 1) Correct permissions in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
20 > > a) You need the line "Port 631" to allow remote access
21 > > b) Maybe (I am not sure about this one) you need "Browsing On"
22 > > to allow sharing?
23 > > c) You need the section for "<Location />" to have "Allow From
24 > > 192.168.0.*" or whatever netmask you use.
25 > > 2) Either
26 > > a) A working printer that you can print locally from the cups
27 > > server via "lpr -P<NAME>". In this case you can just tell
28 > > the Windows computers to print to
29 > > http://<cups server ip>:631/printers/<NAME>
30 > > using a generic postscript driver.
31 >
32 > Is this true for non-postscript printers? If so it's a great solution.
33 >
34 > I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI:
35 >
36 > http://192.168.1.59:631/printers
37 >
38 > It gives me a long, ugly descriptive name for the printer so I tried:
39 >
40 > lpr -P HP_PSC_1600_series_USB_1 optimize_mythdb.sh
41 >
42 > which did print correctly so I'm good to go so far.
43 >
44 > > or
45 > > b) A working printer for which you have the Windows drivers. You
46 >
47 > The Windows driver for this printer does not support network printing
48 > so I don't think this is an option.
49
50 You shouldn't need a MS Windows network printing enabled driver to do this
51 (with an lpd printer), nor a Samba client on your Linux boxen for that
52 matter. Have a look here:
53
54 http://forums.opensuse.org/archives/sls-archives/archives-linux-tweaks/archives-howtos-discussions/378052-printing-linux-lpd-printer-no-samba-required.html
55
56 --
57 Regards,
58 Mick

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