[cups.general] Managing a SMB queue through CUPS

[Michael R Sweet]

John Hodrien wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Michael R Sweet wrote:
> 
>> Right.  They might be willing to migrate away from the file-based
>> share printing (Win9x+) to SPOOLSS RPC calls (WinNT+) in future
>> Samba releases - just depends on how much they want to support Win9x
>> printing at this point...
> 
> Hmm, that's food for thought.
> 
> The server at the moment appears to offer (there's a lot of 'appears' in all
> this, as it's a separate administrative domain) an IPP interface to the
> queues.  Navigating with a web browser can return me all the information that
> I seem to need.
> 
> https://win2k3server.domain/printers/ipp_0004.asp?view=q&eprinter=CAR~2dLP4&page=7052
> 
> Is this more easily integrated with CUPS, or am I still onto a loser?

You *can* use IPP with Windows 2000 and higher using http: or https:
URIs of the form:

     {http|https}://host-or-ip/printers/sharename/.printer

That will give you *slightly* more reliable printing, but means you
need to have IIS and the IPP support enabled on your server which
exposes you to additional security risks on the Windows box...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer