You may also want to look into setting up avahi to advertise your CUPS printer. Avahi is the Linux implementation of the Bonjour advertising protocol; Bonjour is for Apple what UPnP is for Windows.
> -----Original Message----- > From: samba-boun...@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba- > boun...@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Lennart Sorensen > Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 7:49 AM > To: Christophe Baegert > Cc: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] windows 7 and printer sharing > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:38:18PM +0100, Christophe Baegert wrote: > > IPP never worked on my Macbook using OS X 10.4, which works well with > Samba. > > Odd, given I remember Mac OS X 10.1 automatically detecting the IPP > broadcasts by cups (which cups was set to share printers with the > network, > which it doesn't by default). Apple is even funding cups these days. > As long as your print server with cups is configured to share with the > local network, and not firewalling it away it should work. > > > But I didn't try it on the Windows 7 computer, I'll try that, if it > > works, indeed, Samba isn't necessary !!! Thank you for your help. > > I have certainly used IPP printing with windows. > > use the url: > http://printerserver:631/printers/print_queue_name > > And install the right driver of course. > > Of course cups should be configured to handle unknown job types as raw > (which I think is normally the default these days as well). > > -- > Len Sorensen > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba