Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:

> On Wednesday 04 October 2006 00:09, Per Jessen wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I have a single Windows workstation left which I'd like to be able to
>> also use our CUPS printing setup.  The various howtos etc.
>> undoubtedly describe this perfectly well, but it just seems way too
>> complicated - is there really no straight forward, simple/quick/easy
>> way of having this one left over Windows workstation use our CUPS
>> printers?
>>
>>
>> /Per Jessen, Zürich
> 
> What version of Windows Per?

Win2K.

> Win2k and WinSp just know how to print to cups automatically.

Now that sounds good - over ipp?

> In the url field you put
> http://<yourservername-or-ip:631/printers/<printername>
> 
> If everyone is on the same subnet you should not have to make any
> changes to the subnet settings in cups.conf.  Otherwise, you do.

Yep, everyone on the same subnet.  

I'll have to try that setup again - I'm fairly certain I already tried
ipp, but still ended up needing drivers and such for the Windows box.

> Note:  Its a good idea to set up a separate queue (printer) for
> windows that is a raw queue, even if it points to the same hardware,
> because there is no need for cups to be filtering all of that windows
> output thru ghoastscript
> and whatever else it decides to do.  

Good point.

> The Windows machines will prepare 
> hardware ready data streams since you will have to install drivers.

Ah, so I will need the drivers - but presumably I can fish those out
somewhere and then only install on this one machine?


Thanks John.



/Per Jessen, Zürich