Re: [Samba] windows 7 and printer sharing
the main advantage of SMB printing is automatic installation of drivers. this is worth the trouble only if you have many clients. (and to my knowledge it doesn't work with 64bits OS) We run 64bit vista and windows clients. They work fine with samba. You can either upload 64bit drivers to the server or take advantage of point and print behaviour: "if Point and Print does not find an appropriate driver on the print server, it will attempt to find and install a driver with the correct file name from the local driver cab or driver store. The ability to look in the local driver cab is new starting with Windows XP" http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/pointandprint.mspx So by uploading a driver from a windows 32bit clients local repository to the samba server, 64bit client will automatically use the same driver from their local store. This was the easiest route for us. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] windows 7 and printer sharing
BUT I don't even see my network on a Windows 7 computer (I applied the What happens when you click 'start' and '\\name_of_samba_server' on search bar? What version of samba are you running? -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] windows 7 and printer sharing
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
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
Re: [Samba] windows 7 and printer sharing
Hi, Le 05/01/2010 13:03, Jean-Jacques Moulis a écrit : In your case I wouldn't use smb for printing. both OSX and windows (at least recent ones) can print directly to a CUPS server. IPP never worked on my Macbook using OS X 10.4, which works well with Samba. 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. Regards, Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] windows 7 and printer sharing
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:03:38 +0100 Christophe Baegert wrote: CB> Hi, CB> On a linux server with CUPS, I installed Samba to share it with windows CB> computers. CB> I managed to share it with my Macbook on MacOS 10.4, with this address : | CB> smb://login:passw...@name _of_server/name_of_printer| CB> So I think my server is well configured. CB> BUT I don't even see my network on a Windows 7 computer (I applied the In your case I wouldn't use smb for printing. both OSX and windows (at least recent ones) can print directly to a CUPS server. the main advantage of SMB printing is automatic installation of drivers. this is worth the trouble only if you have many clients. (and to my knowledge it doesn't work with 64bits OS) Use http://your.cups.server/printers/your_printername to connect to your cups server. -- Jean-Jacques Moulis Tel: (013) 281684 ISYFax: (013) 139282 Linköping UniversityE-mail: j...@isy.liu.se 581 83 Linköping -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
