Hello,
This article is outdated and incomplete (in particular Samba is missing and/or how to access a CUPS server directly from Windows via IPP) and would need major changes and enhancements to become actually useful.
I guess Win XP does not yet support to access a CUPS server directly via its native IPP protocol so that I think you need a Samba server running on the Linux server to provide to the Win XP computers its traditional printer shares.
Since a longer time Samba forwards print jobs which it got from Windowns explicitely as "raw" via a line like cups options = raw in /etc/samba/smb.conf so that also no change regarding application/octet-stream in a mime.convs file should be needed.
But I am not at all a Samba expert.
Since CUPS V1.4b1 the standard MIME types are installed in DataDir/mime (CUPS STR #2719 http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2719) so that it is now (i.e. since openSUSE 11.3) /usr/share/cups/mime/mime.convs and /usr/share/cups/mime/mime.types but application/octet-stream should now be enabled by default so that no longer any change therein should be needed.
Kind Regards Johannes Meixner
Thanks for the info, I'll revisit this in a couple days and have another shot at it. Thanks, Mike. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org