Hello, On Oct 17 14:28 ka1ifq wrote (shortened):
I remember doing this before, but I am sure things have changed in 11.3.
I have 2 printers setup on my OS 11.3 and want to share one of them with a Win XP computer on my home network.
I can see and setup the printer from the Win box but it shows a status of Access Denied.
I did check online: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Printing_from_Windows_to_Linux
This article is outdated and incomplete (in particular Samba is missing and/or how to access a CUPS server directly from Windows via IPP) and would need major changes and enhancements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.
but some things it refers to I just don't find.
* 1.1 Step 1: YaST control center * 1.2 Step 2: Edit /etc/cups/mime.convs configuration file * 1.3 Step 3: Restart CUPS server
I do not find the file in step #2.
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 -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org