[cups.general] Printing from windows

[Dr.Edgar Alwers]

Damien Hull wrote:

> Here's my situation.
> 1. Suses 9.1 with cups configured as a server
> 2. Setup a printer
> 3. Configured other Suses workstations as clients and they can print
> 4. Setup samba to share the printer
> 5. Connected a Windows 2000 laptop to the work group and it sees the
> printer.
> 
> I didn't have time to test printing from the Windows laptop so I don't
> know if it works or not. However, My guess is that it won't work. I've
> searched google and found information on raw printers, user accounts
> etc..
> 
> How do I get the Windows laptop to print through cups?

First of all: you_need_time ! How will you check if the laptop does print if
you not even try it ?
Besides of this: you need to install a raw printer in your server, e.g. via
localhost:631. The original driver for your printer should be installed
under windows on the laptop. The laptop sends then a formated printjob to
the raw printer on the server, and the server sends it without additional
formating to the printer. It should work.
Regards,
Edgar