windows client

Anonymous anonymous at easysw.com
Fri May 21 12:40:28 PDT 2004


Jake wrote:
> Hello everybody. I use a SuSe 8.2 with Cups 1.1.18 and NO samba.
> On the local computer, printing works from all aplications.I can
> also configure cups from any computer in my network over the web
> frontend on port 631. That works also.My question is, how to PRINT
> from a windows computer over cups. I guess I have to use a driver > on client side, like the "Adobe PostScript driver" or a ipp
> client. Is that right? I have installed only the Adobe PostScript > driver on a win98 computer, but it doesn't work, because the
> driver dose not find the SuSe Computer with Cups. Can anybody help
> me? Thanks, Jake

In order to access to your IPP CUPS server, you have to use an IPP client. W98 lacks IPP support. You should then access your CUPS server via SMB using SAMBA on the CUPS server.

For the driver, you could install a native windows driver (shipped with your printer), or use a generic postscript driver (Microsoft, Adobe or CUPS postscript driver), but then CUPS will have to translate PoscScript code to the printer's native language (using CUPS pstoraster, or Foomatic or Omni or other available and CUPS compatible filters).

Nevertheless, I urge you to read the SAMBA/CUPS printing howto in the SAMBA Howto collection. All is detailed an explained there. This documentation cannot be ignored if you want to use CUPS as a print server for windows clients.

Regards.





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