Re: printing in heterogenous network

2005-09-30 Thread Craig Colton
On Friday 30 September 2005 12:34 am, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Although, due to all complexity associated with SAMBA printing, I prefer > configuring Windows 2000/XP clients to print directly to CUPS, without > any need for SAMBA. I have an XP Pro machine configured here as an LP client

Re: printing in heterogenous network

2005-09-30 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > > As for winprinters, the untested sequence of actions is: > > 1) Install winprinter driver on the client (fixme: do all CDs allow to > install a driver without a printer being actually connected?) AFAIK, they do. > 2) Add a "raw" printer using

Re: printing in heterogenous network

2005-09-30 Thread Richard A Downing
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Richard A Downing wrote: > >>> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: >> Hey, now that (all your post) MUST become a hint, at the very least! >> Ideally a page in the BLFS book - it's vital information. >> >> I thought I understood it, but clearly I didn't, since I didn't kn

Re: printing in heterogenous network

2005-09-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Richard A Downing wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Alternatively, you may want to use the stock Adobe PostScript driver (although I don't know any reason for such preference). In such case, ... Hey, now that (all your post) MUST become a hint, at the very l

Re: printing in heterogenous network

2005-09-30 Thread Richard A Downing
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > >> Alternatively, you may want to use the stock Adobe PostScript driver >> (although I don't know any reason for such preference). In such case, ... Hey, now that (all your post) MUST become a hint, at the very least! Ideally a page in

Re: printing in heterogenous network

2005-09-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Alternatively, you may want to use the stock Adobe PostScript driver (although I don't know any reason for such preference). In such case, you will need only the ppd file from CUPS and the following "adobe.inf" file: (oops, incomplete copy-paste) See the correct

Re: printing in heterogenous network

2005-09-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Archaic wrote: While in a discussion with a friend, I found that I was not aware of some of the particulars involved in a certain setup. The following questions assume a non-postscript printer on a linux box shared via samba. When a print job comes in over smb from a windows client, and that cli

printing in heterogenous network

2005-09-29 Thread Archaic
While in a discussion with a friend, I found that I was not aware of some of the particulars involved in a certain setup. The following questions assume a non-postscript printer on a linux box shared via samba. When a print job comes in over smb from a windows client, and that client has the corre