[cups.general] CUPS Driver for Windows 5.0rc3

[Franz Pförtsch]

Please have a look at:
http://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/windows/cups-samba-5.0rc3.tar.gz

regards
Franz


Adrian Gschwend wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We use CUPS at our university and everything works just fine from Linux,
> Solaris and BSD. We also print from Windows via Samba but the drawback is
> that this solution is quite slow and generates a big load on the CUPS
> server.
> Now I digged around a bit and found this:
> 
> http://www.cups.org/windows/index.php
> 
> It mentions "CUPS Driver for Windows 5.0rc3" and there is a nice download
> link, unfortunately it loops (which means gets back on the same page
> sooner or later) so I can't download that.
> 
> Is there a way to get CUPS to work on Linux in a way like I have it on
> Linux? Which means I don't have to create a printer for each printer
> available on the server but it can query that itself? If so, where can I
> find that and what is the idea of this CUPS Driver for Windows?
> 
> thanks
> 
> Adrian