On Sep 27 2007 21:45, Ron Eggler wrote: >On Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:12:34 pm Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Sep 26 2007 18:48, Ron Eggler wrote: >> >> If you use IPP printing from Windows, you need to use "Publish Printer" >> >> in the CUPS webfrontend. >> >> >> >> If you use SMB printing from Windows, you can use samba's authentication >> >> controls (i.e. authenticated or guest mode) and all is well. >> > >> >I use IPP, how do i use "Publish Printer"? - I don't see a link that's >> > called like that. >> >> Publish Printer is a button in the CUPS web interface. > >I'm either blind or.... >my cups has following link on tthe homepage (192.168.0.2:631): >ESP|Administration|Classes|Help|Jobs|Printers|Software >and when i click on printers (where i assume it to be) i get my >printer: "Deskjet_D4200" and following link buttons: >Print Test Page|Stop Printer|Reject Jobs|Modify Printer|Configure Printer| >Delete Printer|Set As Default >and >Add Printer >So I'm really not sure what you see. Am I looking at the wrong page or >something? :o
Hm, I have cups 1.2.11, which is a bit newer than the one from 10.2 (1.2.7)... >> Two or more ways: >> - rasterization(Windows) - relay(CUPS) - printed page >> - postscriptize(Windows) - rasterize(CUPS) - printed page >> (- postscriptize(Windows) - relay(CUPS) - rasterization(printer) - printed >> page) >> >> The 3rd one does not always work, due to crappy printers that just >> lock up because they feel like they do not have enough memory. > >Huh? Sorry, you lost me here...not sure what you're talking about here :( Different ways of how to chain the print job transformation. >> If you run with smb printing instead of ipp, it will do "the right thing", >> since you can force smb that authentication is a must. >> As far as the linux world is considered, you always need to login >> to the system anyway before sending a print job, so no problem here. > >A little earlier (a few weeks ago) I wanted to go the "easy" way via samba and >then i got recommended to forget about Samba and rather just share it by CUPS. >That's why I'm actually doing it the CUPS way and i'd really like to get it >working that way. So i really appreciate everybody's help to get my printer >shared and accessible to Windows clients. Well if you do not care about authentication, either smb or ipp works. >> >I tried: >> >lppasswd -a 'Ron Eggler' and got this: >> >> lppasswd is not required in 10.2, it will use PAM. > >but still i would like to not use it. That's what I said. CUPS will use the system password databse, and that's a good thing, is not it? Less passwords to remember. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
