On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 12:12 -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote: > Windows hosted printers should work from Solaris Nevada. If you bring > up the printmgr and add a "New Network Printer", you should be able to > select "URI" for the protocol, and set the destination to an SMB uri > (smb://window-box/printer). Since Windows expects the client side to > generate printer ready output, you need to make sure and select a > make/model that matches the printer so foomatic-rip will generate > printer-ready output. > > -Norm
What would be nice is for Nautilus to be able to search and display resources on the distination computer so that it is just a matter of right clicking on the printer, 'make connection to' and be done with it. Matthew > > Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 10:00 -0500, Norm Jacobs wrote: > > > >> Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > >> > >>> the issues experienced trying to setup printers in Solaris, its a > >>> nightmare > >>> One thing I wouldn't mind seeing is CUPS + Gutenprint + Foomatic - given > >>> > >> Foomatic and Gutenprint are in Solaris today. Foomatic is reasonably > >> current, but could use an update. We are in the process of updating > >> things like Gutenprint and GhostScript to something more current. If > >> you use the print manager (/usr/bin/printmgr) to create your print > >> queues it should be reasonably simple. In Nevada build 69, there is a > >> new desktop applet ospm-applet, that watches the HAL device tree for new > >> printers and will automatically create print queues for you (it can be > >> entirely hands off or require your input depending on preferences) see > >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/presto/ for more information. > >> CUPS is available on the companion for Solaris and I believe that it's > >> also built and packaged on Nexenta and Belenix. The companion version > >> is being updated as I write this. > >> > >> -Norm > >> > > > > Its mainly the trying to access a printer over the network which is > > being shared from a windows machine. Is there some way to push the file > > directly to the printer avoiding the need to have a driver on the > > desktop? > > > > Applications such as Firefox can't detect the newly created queue's for > > example. There isn't the ability to install ppd files, for example. > > > > Matthew > > > > > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
