Re: CUPS alternative

2010-01-07 Thread nixlists
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:23 AM, wrote: > Windows XP, vista, and 7 happily will print to a lpd printer. In the > windows world this is called a port, and, lpd is one of the options. > > It's 12 pages of idiot blather, but, you can see the XP setup (or maybe 2000 > setup) here: > > ftp://ftp.dlink

Re: CUPS alternative

2010-01-07 Thread openbsd
Windows XP, vista, and 7 happily will print to a lpd printer. In the windows world this is called a port, and, lpd is one of the options. It's 12 pages of idiot blather, but, you can see the XP setup (or maybe 2000 setup) here: ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Printserver/dp300U/QIG/DP300U_QIG_100.zip V

Re: CUPS alternative

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Bennett
Predrag Punosevac wrote: I know very little about Windows but I would swear that I have seen or read that Windows can speak LPD printing protocol. I also have no knowledge of Samba but I would swear that I read somewhere that supports LPD. Yes, windows speaks LPD. I just don't know anythi

Re: CUPS alternative

2010-01-04 Thread Predrag Punosevac
"nixlists" wrote: > Hi. I need to print from Windows machines to an OpenBSD box using IPP. > Is CUPS the only software that will let me do this? CUPS is huge, > buggy and full of security holes. Wants to only run as root as well. > Thanks. To my knowledge CUPS is the only spooling system availa

CUPS alternative

2010-01-04 Thread nixlists
Hi. I need to print from Windows machines to an OpenBSD box using IPP. Is CUPS the only software that will let me do this? CUPS is huge, buggy and full of security holes. Wants to only run as root as well. Thanks.