A further question about using Windows XP printers on Fedora

Markku Kolkka markkuk at tuubi.net
Sat May 26 18:57:48 UTC 2007


Aaron Konstam kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 26. 
toukokuuta 2007):
> Someone around keeps insisting that if you share a Windows XP
> printer it will be seen in the list of printers you see in the
> CUPS web interface on a Fedora machine. Is that true because
> it makes no sense to me unless the Windows machine have some
> CUPS server software on it.

CUPS is an implementation of the Internet Printing Protocol 
(IPP). Windows has its own implementation of IPP that's 
interoperable with CUPS.

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 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi




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