Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 03:02:36PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > I hope the question is at least reasonable as the data format at each > point in the network is really unclear to me. Maybe there's a good > site to read about this? If you want all the nitty-gritty details, I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:57:43AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>Again, I don't imagine ANY of what we're talking about here will >> work for a Windows machine printing to a Linux cups server if a Linux >> machine on the same network cannot p

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-21 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:57:43AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >Again, I don't imagine ANY of what we're talking about here will > work for a Windows machine printing to a Linux cups server if a Linux > machine on the same network cannot print to that server. Technically not true. I had a Lex

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 20 December 2008 20:53:48 Mark Knecht wrote: > >>I did uncomment lines in /etc/cups/mime.convs and mime.types as per >> the numerous wikis around on configuring cups. If you need the >> specific lines let me know but all the

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 December 2008 20:53:48 Mark Knecht wrote: >I did uncomment lines in /etc/cups/mime.convs and mime.types as per > the numerous wikis around on configuring cups. If you need the > specific lines let me know but all the wikis say to do it. That would be helpful - thanks. Off-list

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:37:32 Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> These are the USE flags I installed CUPS with: >> >> [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE="acl dbus jpeg pam perl png >> python ssl tiff >> -X -avahi -gnutls -java -ker

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:37:32 Peter Humphrey wrote: > These are the USE flags I installed CUPS with: > > [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE="acl dbus jpeg pam perl png > python ssl tiff > -X -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -ldap -php -ppds -samba -slp -static > -xinetd -zeroconf"

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 18 December 2008 15:48:25 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 December 2008 21:48:50 Willie Wong wrote: > >> Basically you just need > > > > [...] > > > > What else do we need if the printer is an HP DJ4260? This seems to ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2008 21:48:50 Willie Wong wrote: > >> Basically you just need > > [...] > > What else do we need if the printer is an HP DJ4260? This seems to need > net-print/hplip installed, but I haven't been able to get this worki

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-18 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2008 21:48:50 Willie Wong wrote: > > >> Basically you just need >> > > [...] > > What else do we need if the printer is an HP DJ4260? This seems to need > net-print/hplip installed, but I haven't been able to get this working; it > seems I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 21:48:50 Willie Wong wrote: > Basically you just need [...] What else do we need if the printer is an HP DJ4260? This seems to need net-print/hplip installed, but I haven't been able to get this working; it seems I haven't resolved a misconfiguration between hplip a

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-17 Thread BRM
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 4:53:43 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions? On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I've now tested my Vista machine. It works fine and Vista actually had > an HP driver for this printer

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> I've now tested my Vista machine. It works fine and Vista actually had >> an HP driver for this printer so I used that driver since the Adobe >> postscript driver doesn't install on Vista

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I've now tested my Vista machine. It works fine and Vista actually had > an HP driver for this printer so I used that driver since the Adobe > postscript driver doesn't install on Vista. From Vista I can print in > color on the cups printer. On

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 16 December 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi Willie, > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > > (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I > > wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) > > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knech

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:48:11PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > > Basically you just need > > > > 1) Correct permissions in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf > > a) You need the line "Port 631" to allow remote access > > b) Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dale wrote: > >> You ever thought of using webmin? I think webmin will help set this >> up. Just a thought. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > > Honestly, there was nothing webmin was really going to do for me. > There were two lines to b

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dale wrote: > > You ever thought of using webmin? I think webmin will help set this > up. Just a thought. > > Dale > > :-) :-) Honestly, there was nothing webmin was really going to do for me. There were two lines to be uncommented in the /etc/cups/mimes files.

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI: >>> >>> http://192.168.1.59:631/printers >>> >>> It gives me a lon

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI: >> >> http://192.168.1.59:631/printers >> >> It gives me a long, ugly descriptive name for the printer so I tried: >> >> lpr

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi Willie, > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong wrote: >> (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I >> wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) >> >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knec

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI: > > http://192.168.1.59:631/printers > > It gives me a long, ugly descriptive name for the printer so I tried: > > lpr -P HP_PSC_1600_series_USB_1 optimize_mythdb.sh You may want

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Willie, On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong wrote: > (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I > wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >>I'm looking around for up to date instructions

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:48:50PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how > > to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. > > Why SAMBA? > Also, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > > In my case I have a "winprinter", doesn't do anything without drivers, > doesn't have native understanding of postscript or PCL or anything > like that, isn't a network printer so it doesn't have its own IP > address. Just a plain cheapo US

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
(Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how > to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to p

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how >>> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me t

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Dale
Neil Walker wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Hi, >>I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how >> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. >> >> > > It's been a very long time since I was stupid enough to run Windows on > any of my m

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how >> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. > > I'm also interested in this; I trie

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Neil Walker
Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how > to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. > It's been a very long time since I was stupid enough to run Windows on any of my machines. However, when I did, I didn't have

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how > to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. I'm also interested in this; I tried it a while back (from both directions; printer hosted on lin

[gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. The two most expansive ones I found were here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110931 Unfor