printing from ms-win to linux withough samba ?

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:37:12PM +0200, 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 ...)

Works for me with cups, no IIS or apache or anything else.

Just point your windows-network-printer to:
http://SERVER:631/printers/PRINTERNAME

Mind you, this will require manually taking care of the printer driver,
which is lots of work if you have many clients, and which a
Windows-based print server (what you get by "Sharing" your printer)
tries to save you, and which samba tries to imitate with varying degrees
of success. But cups alone _is_ enough for mere printing.
-- 
Didi