a question about cups and windows

[Alessio Tomelleri]

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> Another way, simpler but perhaps not so polished, is to arrange that the cups-lpd executable (found in the CUPS installation under $CUPS/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd) is executed for every print job received on port 515 of your CUPS print server. You'll need the line:
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> printer stream tcp nowait lp $CUPS/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd cups-lpd -o document-format=application/vnd.cups-raw
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> somewhere in /etc/inetd.conf - don't forget to expand '$CUPS' to the root of the CUPS installation directory. The 'raw' business is there because we don't want CUPS to re-process a print file that Windows has produced.
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> Then create as many 'UNIX LPR' printer queues on your Windows print server as you require - with the same printer queue names - and publish them to your Windows PC clients. (If you haven't a Windows server, simply set the queues up on the Windows PC(s) by hand.)
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> I'm told that it is not possible to publish IPP queues created on Windows Server (2003) to (Windows) clients - if so, it would not be necessary to use the Berkeley LPR queues here, nor cups-lpd. (If anyone knows something to the contrary, or why this is not possible, I'd like to hear about it - I am not a Windows expert or even an administrator!)
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> John A. Murdie
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thx J.A.Murdie for your answer, now I'll look in deep all your advice
Alessio