[cups.general] Documentation clarification for CUPS newbie

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Ambrose Li <ambrose.li at gmail.com> wrote (Friday 04 August 2006 10:49):

> the
> built-in support in Windows 2000 does NOT work.

Works here without a flaw (if you take into account it supports 1.0 only,
and can't use CUPS/IPP authentication).

Do you have a "firewall" enabled on your Win2000 system?

> Second, somewhere in the admin manual (as referenced above) says
> 
>         While CUPS does not provide Windows support directly,
>         the free SAMBA software package does.

"Windows support" for networking usually is meant to be SMB/CIFS.
In which case that statement is correct.

> At the very least, it gives the impression that whoever wrote the manual
> doesn't know what he/she is talking about.

Please! This is a completely inappropriate verdict to issue.

Cheers,
Kurt