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

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>   I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how
>> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows.
>
> I'm also interested in this; I tried it a while back (from both
> directions; printer hosted on linux and printer hosted on windows) and
> eventually gave up. The printer works fine locally on both machines.
> It's not a network printer (no print server) but just a plain old
> shared-on-the-netowork-while-attached-to-a-workstation printer. I'm
> not a CUPS or Samba expert at all so don't take my lack of success as
> to big of a discouragement. :)
>
> I'll be watching this thread closely and perhaps trying along with
> you, but for now I have nothing useful to add.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul

I struggled and made this work sort of some years ago. Then we all
switched to Linux and it wasn't such an issue. Now however I have more
Windows boxes in the house and need to deal with this again so I'm
sort of stuck.

I see Neil says he did it without Samba but I've never heard of that.
I thought the only way to make the cups stuff play on the network like
a Windows network was through cups.

The first thread I point at in the forums was semi-interesting but
finishes earlier this year with people failing to make things work.
Not a good sign I think.

I suppose if I bought a new network printer then maybe it wouldn't be
an issue but I don't have $300 to drop on that right now.

- Mark