Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3983 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suselist@xxxxxxxx>]

PLEASE everyone, STOP top posting, it screws up the threads for the
archives. Freds answer at the bottom.

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 11:08, fareed@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Can anyone point me to a URL, book or otherwise, would like to know
> how to configure CUPS to print from a Windows PC.
> 
> Thanks
> Fred
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Nielsen [mailto:tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 10:16 AM
> To: Suse
> Subject: Re: [SLE] TCP / IP Printing
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 21:23, John Andersen wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 28 December 2003 22:01, fareed@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Dear list,
> > >
> > > To achieve the above I used ICE.TCP on SCO Openserver 5.0.x and it
> worked
> > > wonders.
> > >
> > > It comes with a application called ICELPD which listens to port 2346.
> When
> > > a user sends
> > > a print to the printer its executes a printer interface script, example
> > > printermodel.scr.
> > > The *.scr creates a file-file stores it in /usr/tmp. Client gets it via
> > > port 2346 and it prints
> > > locally.
> > >
> > > I've got the ICELP printing deamon for Linux working. My question is
> where
> > > do I place the
> > > script file. You could possibly call the script file a driver? In SUSE
> it
> > > asks for a ppd file
> > > and does not recognise *.scr.  I've check in /usr/share/cups/model
> > >
> > > Perhaps someone can recommend something? Perhaps even a diffrent
> solution
> > > totally?
> > > I use the ICE.TCP printing solution for speed. Its very very fast. Check
> > > out www.jriver.com
> >
> > Why pay for that? Cups works fine for this, across the room, across the
> > campus, across the world....   From linux, windows, or any IPP client.
> >
> 
> I completely agree with John. CUPS works great! I can print from home to
> my office computer. (It's for when I work from home). Try it, it's
> really easy to setup....and I'm an idiot.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 

You will also need to install and configure samba in order to be able to
use the printers on a linux machine.  www.samba.org has a lot of
documentation as well as www.cups.org.

Ken
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Ken Schneider
unix user since 1989
linux user since 1994
SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)