printing from ms-win to linux withough samba ?

[geoffrey mendelson]

On Mar 15, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Erez D wrote:

>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Sure,
> You can use IPP (Internet Printing Protocol).
> For the Windows machines, you can read the document which is available
> here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/internetprint.mspx
>
> it requires you install IIS on the printer server ... (and my  
> printer server is linux ...)


No, you install CUPS, make sure it is listening on port 631 and then
try (I'm not on a widows computer to make sure)

ipp://<computername>:631/printers/<printername>

You could also after you install cups, install samba and access it as  
if it were a
windows printer.

If you want to prevent shell access, you create a userid for the  
printer, and set the password
to some long unguessable password. Then you set a resonable password  
in smbpasswd.

Samba is not the difficult to install or use, and you can set it up  
NOT to do file sharing.

Geoff.





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