Re: [SLE] cups printing for windows?

John Andersen wrote:

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 00:09, Per Jessen wrote:

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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://

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