[TriLUG] Weird CUPS printing problem

[Timothy A. Chagnon]

My only experience with Win->CUPS printing is at home with my roommate's
XP laptop, but it works and I'll tell you how:

I use IPP not Samba.  When setting up the printer in XP, choose network
printer, then URL.  The URL goes something like:
http://$server:631/printers/$printer
Replace $server with the CUPS server IP and $printer with the name of
the printer in CUPS.

If windows can talk to CUPS you'll be asked to select a driver,
otherwise you'll still be stuck at the URL input dialog.

Of course you need to allow incoming connections on tcp 631 in iptables
or whatever else you're using for network equipment.

Hope this helps, good luck
-Tim
-- 
Timothy A. Chagnon <tchagnon at futeki.net>

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 12:36, Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
> I have a linux redhat latest version running cups. Well, I have a bunch
> of windows xp clients trying to print to these CUPS raw queues. The y
> are behaving problematically because, according to CUPS, there's no jobs
> in the queue. However if you look on the XP printer properties, there's
> like 600+ jobs there. owned by "nobody". ...oh, and they cannot print at
> all.
> 
> I know that SAMBA is used to actually share out these printers... what
> could the problem be? Perhaps permissions, CUPS cannot delete the jobs
> from the queues in SAMBA? I don't know what's happening. I only have a
> basic understanding of CUPS & SAMBA, unfortunately. Looks like I get the
> crash course today...
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