WinXP IPP Printing to CUPS

[Anonymous]

I am trying now and am getting access denied when I try to add the printer. I would like a solution.

>
> On Jan 14, 2005, at 7:41 AM, Helge Blischke wrote:
>
> > David Schlenk wrote:
> >>
> >> Apologies if this has been covered before.
> >>
> >> We've been using cups+samba to share network printers to our windows
> >> clients in a windows domain for many years. With XP SP2 we have had
> >> many issues with the reliability of samba, and are looking at the
> >> possibility of using IPP printing with windows.
> >> [...]
> >
> > Since we use samba 3.0.x (x in [5,9]), we don't have any serious
> > problems with that
> > (our win boxes run NT4, W2K, XP, most of them with the most recent
> > service packs).
> > The only thing we encountered is that samba seems to have some memory
> > leaks that
> > cause the smbd processes to get incredilby big over time. Therefore we
> > restart
> > the samba service once a day.
> >
> We use samba 3.0.10 (with patches) but still see some problems
> particularly with complex group policies.  It might not be a samba
> specific thing, but either way, it makes printing via cifs not work
> with WXP SP2.
>
> > As for authentication, we use login scripts on the win boxes to
> > silently
> > log the box
> > in to a dummy share on the samba server and thus need not care about
> > printing authentication
> > any more.
>
> With printing straight to IPP, this wouldn't work.
>
> Anyone else tried this?
> --
> David Schlenk
> Operating Systems Analyst
> Bethel University
> Saint Paul, Minnesota
> david-schlenk at bethel.edu
>