Hello, On Nov 27 16:04 Roger Oberholtzer wrote (shortened):
On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 14:59 +0100, Johannes Meixner wrote:
On Nov 27 10:19 Roger Oberholtzer wrote (shortened):
Anyone know the status of the Novell IPrint Client and Netware Clients for openSUSE? The IPrint client does seem to work ok. But it is never included with openSUSE.
Because openSUSE provides free software, iPrint is not included. - The iPrint server is proprietary and you must pay for it. - The iPrint client is proprietary and almost as "free" as the Adobe Reader.
I guess it does not have to be included any more than other things like nvidia drivers or MS fonts are. I am very flexible about the mechanism for obtaining this. I am just confused about the non-availability - there is nothing to be obtained.
I used in Google this search string novell iPrint client RPM site:novell.com clicked on the first match http://www.novell.com/documentation/oes/iprint_nw/index.html?page=/documenta... and found there the exact RPM names novell-iprint-xclient-sh-version.i586.rpm novell-iprint-xclient-sl-version.i586.rpm and the explanation ------------------------------------------------------ You can download and install the iPrint Client from the iPrint Printer List Web page that resides on the server where the Print Manager is loaded. ------------------------------------------------------ I.e. when you need the iPrint Client, there must be somewhere also an iPrint server (otherwise you don't need an iPrint Client) and then you can download and install the iPrint Client from the iPrint server (more precisely from where the Print Manager is loaded). If the server where the Print Manager is loaded does not provide you an appropriate iPrint Client RPM (e.g. only outdated stuff but nothing for openSUSE 11.0 or for whatever other current Linux distributions), you must ask the admin of the server where the Print Manager is loaded. What a nonsense that users should download and install software form whatever other server before they can get access to a service on such another server. Obviously those users must have unlimited trust in those unknown software form an unknown other server because installing a RPM must be done as root so that those unknown software form an unknown other server has unlimited permissions on the users own system. Welcome to the nice world of proprietary software ;-) When you do not need printing to secure iPrint queues (i.e. queues where an authentication dialog is needed) you may not need the iPrint Client at all because a non-secure queue on an iPrint server should be accessible via plain IPP protocol so that all you need to know is the exact IPP DeviceURI and the printer model to set up a usual local CUPS queue on the client system with a matching driver for the printer model. Basically - as far as I know - a non-secure queue on an iPrint server behaves like a network printer which is accessible via IPP protocol, see http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/network.html "Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)" Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org