Yes, that would require Samba as at least earlier Windows can only share it via CIFS/SMB - at least, end-user versions. You might be able to get Win2k Server, Win2k3, or Win2k8 to do IPP only though, but I doubt it would be easy to get WinXP, Win2k Pro, or Vista to do so.
If you can get Windows to share solely using IPP, then you would not need Samba, and it would be the same as configuring any CUPS client - at least that's my untested thought. CUPS can interact with Windows and other systems either in IPP mode or CIFS/IPP mode. For CIFS/IPP mode you need Samba to provide the CIFS layer. I would, however, strongly recommend that unless you really want to protect your printer via a Samba/Windows Domain (not likely on this list, but you never know), then just use the friendlier strip IPP mode for accessing the printer as the CIFS/IPP will just add overhead and headaches. (I got IPP working and just stopped there. It didn't seem beneficial to go any further for my small network, and I don't have any DOS, Win9x, or NT4 systems that don't have IPP support.) Ben ----- Original Message ---- From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:53:43 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions? On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've now tested my Vista machine. It works fine and Vista actually had > an HP driver for this printer so I used that driver since the Adobe > postscript driver doesn't install on Vista. From Vista I can print in > color on the cups printer. On the XP machine using the generic > postscript driver I get black & white. It all seems so easy now :) Has anyone got any tips on setting it up the other way? Printing from linux to a shared (non-network) printer connected to a Windows machine? Surely that would require Samba... Thanks, Paul
