Windows Server 2003 printing without Samba to CUPS

[Helge Blischke]

John A. Murdie wrote:
>>John A. Murdie wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone have experience with setting up printing services on a
>>>Windows Server 2003 so that its (Windows desktop) clients can print
>>>through it to the printers of a CUPS print server (hosted by a
>>>Solaris system), without going through Samba? (Occam's Razor - Don't
>>>multiply entities beyond necessity!) Awkwardly, I know nothing about
>>>Windows Server 2003 and the Windows people here know and wish to
>>>continue to know nothing about CUPS, but say that Windows Server 2003
>>>does not let them address the many printers of a CUPS server with
>>>URIs such as ipp:cups/pp23, ipp:cups/pp24 etc, though they can
>>>configure one IPP printer at a particular address with a URI such as
>>>ipp:pp23. Is there an overview article on this subject?
>>
>>Short version:
>>
>>Bring up the Printers & Faxes control panel, double-click Add Printer,
>>choose network printer, and use:
>>
>>     http://servername:631/printers/printername
>>
>>as the URL for the printer.
>>
>>You'll need to supply a local driver as CUPS doesn't (yet) support
>>the undocumented Microsoft IPP extension for driver download, but
>>that works with Win2k, WinXP, and Win2k3.
>>
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>>______________________________________________________________________
>>Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
>>Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com
> 
> 
> Oops, I had meant to write just that - e.g. http://cups:631/printers/pp23 etc, instead of my shorthand above. The Windows people here tell me that the problem arises because our Solaris CUPS server is not in the Active Directory domain of their Windows Server 2003 server, and so they cannot publish the CUPS printer queues to other members of the domain. (? This is all gobbledegook to me!) I will ask them more about this matter. I presume that there might be documentation of all this in Windows knowledge databases and forums, but this is beyond my simpleton's ken.
> 
> John A. Murdie

What about adding the CUPS printers to the Active Directory server?
Then they should be published to the other workstations in this domain.
Or am I completely wrong?

Helge

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