Though CUPS and LP can and do use several common pieces of software on
Solaris for printer support and SMB support, they aren't integrated with
each other. CUPS can be used in place of LP and vice versa. If you
want to switch between CUPS and LP you can use the print-serivce(1m)
command:
# uname -a
SunOS snappy 5.11 snv_90 i86pc i386 i86pc
# print-service -q
active print service: cups
# svcs '*cups*' '*print*'
STATE STIME FMRI
disabled Jun_09 svc:/application/print/server:default
disabled Jun_09 svc:/application/print/ipp-listener:default
disabled Jun_09 svc:/application/print/ppd-cache-update:default
disabled Jun_09 svc:/network/device-discovery/printers:snmp
disabled Jun_09 svc:/application/print/rfc1179:default
online Jun_09 svc:/application/cups/scheduler:default
online Jun_09 svc:/application/cups/in-lpd:default
online Jun_09 svc:/application/cde-printinfo:default
# print-service -s lp
disabling CUPS services...
enabling LP services...
# svcs '*cups*' '*print*'
STATE STIME FMRI
disabled Jun_09 svc:/network/device-discovery/printers:snmp
disabled 10:42:02 svc:/application/cups/in-lpd:default
disabled 10:42:02 svc:/application/cups/scheduler:default
online Jun_09 svc:/application/cde-printinfo:default
online 10:42:03 svc:/application/print/server:default
online 10:42:03 svc:/application/print/rfc1179:default
online 10:42:14 svc:/application/print/ipp-listener:default
online 10:42:30 svc:/application/print/ppd-cache-update:default
# print-service -s cups
disabling LP services...
enabling CUPS services...
# svcs '*cups*' '*print*'
STATE STIME FMRI
disabled Jun_09 svc:/network/device-discovery/printers:snmp
disabled 10:42:52 svc:/application/print/ppd-cache-update:default
disabled 10:42:52 svc:/application/print/rfc1179:default
disabled 10:42:52 svc:/application/print/ipp-listener:default
disabled 10:42:53 svc:/application/print/server:default
online Jun_09 svc:/application/cde-printinfo:default
online 10:42:54 svc:/application/cups/scheduler:default
online 10:42:54 svc:/application/cups/in-lpd:default
# print-service -q
active print service: cups
#
If you want to use a Windows hosted printer from CUPS you can use
"lpadmin -p queue -v smb://windows-host/queue ..." to create the queue
or use the CUPS web interface http://localhost:631/admin/ (all
applications -> system tools -> manage printing from the gnome menus).
Both LP and CUPS use smbspool(1m) from samba to communicate with the
Windows SMB print server. With respect to printing and the new Solaris
CIFS support (client and server), integrated printing support is on the
list of things that are yet to be done.
-Norm
Wyllys Ingersoll wrote:
> Can someone post some updated instructions on how to configure and use CUPS
> on a *recent* Nevada system? I am trying to print to a shared printer
> hosted on Windows XP using SMB. If using 'printmgr', I can configure the URI
> method and specify smb://HOST/PRINTER, but that also requires me to set up
> /etc/sfw/smb.conf, so apparently it is not using any of the new Solaris CIFS
> client services. I thought CUPS was integrated better into the printing
> services - I am running build 91 - but I don't see any SMF entries or man
> pages describing how to use it, or at least none that are complete and correct
