Sharing Samba printer with XP
antonio montagnani
anto.montagnani at virgilio.it
Thu Nov 11 06:33:48 UTC 2004
Ken Barber ha scritto/wrote il giorno/on 11/11/2004 07:22:
>On Wednesday 10 November 2004 9:51 am, Steve Huffman wrote:
>
>
>>Much is available in the literature and archives about sharing a Samba
>>printer with W2K/XP. All is depressing and doesn't seem to capitalize on
>>Samba's presence. Is anything new on this topic in FC3? Are there some
>>good places to read up?
>>
>>
>
>I tried this and finally gave up. Since XP understands IPP (Internet Printing
>Protocol) it's a lot easier to just set up XP to work with CUPS.
>
>You still have to get a driver for the printer onto the XP installation
>somehow. And you have to tweak a couple of CUPS configs to allow raw input.
>I don't remember the details, but the clues were in the CUPS log file after
>trying to print from the XP machine. Something about setting a MIME type for
>raw printing, which is disabled by default in CUPS.
>
>Hope this helps. Believe me, it was LOTS simpler than trying to get XP
>working with Samba printers!
>
>Ken
>
>
>
/etc/cups/mimes.conv e mimes.types
Check for raw printing
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