[cups.general] Documentation clarification for CUPS newbie

[Ambrose Li]

On 03/08/06, Kurt Pfeifle <kpfeifle at danka.de> wrote:
> gcr <quaternion at comcast.net> wrote (Thursday 03 August 2006 04:58):
>
> > let me suggest the following: why not simply mention in the CUPS
> > documentation that WINDOWS networking with CUPS is questionable
> > owing to only partial IPP support, rather than flatout asserting
> > that such a capability is non-existent.
>
> See
>
>   http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html#2_2   <-- CUPS User Manual
>   http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#2_2   <-- CUPS Admin Manual
>
> Where/how would you improve this?

For me, it would be at least two things, after quickly scanning the two
docs referenced above.

First, both documents claim that it is supported by Windows 2000. In my
experience, ths is the opposite; i.e., the add-on support in Windows 95/98
works (to the point that printing works, but not job deletion), while the
built-in support in Windows 2000 does NOT work. Thus I feel it is
appropriate to stress the support as incomplete/buggy, versus a simple
statement that support exists.

Second, somewhere in the admin manual (as referenced above) says

        While CUPS does not provide Windows support directly,
        the free SAMBA software package does.

I have always thought that this is a rather bizzare (if not outright wrong)
statement. (It contradicts the statement mentioned above, for example.)
At the very least, it gives the impression that whoever wrote the manual
doesn't know what he/she is talking about.

-- 
cheers,
-ambrose