I found that esr article just as i was trying to configure my gentoo box (cups) to print to a win xp box with an epson printer. My main problem related to the need to authenticate using a user/password combination on the windows box. Like esr I was thrown a number of username/password dialogs along the way, but it was never clear if what it wanted was:
a) the root password of the box i was on, so it could change the local print setup; or b) the user/passwd combination for a user authorised to use the printer on the XP box.; c) (on the basis that neither of those seemed to work anyway) some obscure password needed for cups. I still suspect that irt is not quite right to have a local queue on the linux box that then fires the job off to yet another queue on the XP box, but I am not sure how else to do it - and in fact i am only assuming thats what is happenning. Now tonight's trick will be to get the XP box printing and scanning to/from the linux box running cups/samba/sane. On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 03:49:21 +1300 Paul Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just i the process of reading a rant that ESR wrote a few days ago > about the cups situation on Linux. > > He titles it > > The Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story > http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html > > It's nice to know that I'm not alone in my grief. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
