Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 and WinSp just know how to print to cups automatically.
For Win98 you need to download a piece of software from microsofts
site that teaches it about IPP.  (If this is the case let me know, I have
it squirreled away somewhere, its getting harder to find any win9x stuff
at microsofts site.

For WinXp, for example, you create a new printer and select the radio
button that says "connect to a printer on the Internet or on a home or 
office network"  (or words to that effect).

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.

I am able to print from home to my office cups server, because I have
631 open thru the firewall direct to the print server.  I expected all sorts 
of problems with this, but 4 years on, and I've never had any mysterious
print jobs show up.  


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


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John Andersen