printing from ms-win to linux withough samba ?

[Lior Okman]

geoffrey mendelson wrote:

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> On Mar 15, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Erez D wrote:
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>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo <hetzbh at gmail.com> 
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>> 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 
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>> it requires you install IIS on the printer server ... (and my printer 
>> server is linux ...)
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> 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)
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> ipp://<computername>:631/printers/<printername>
In some instances, I had to specify the http protocol instead of ipp. E.g:

http://<computername>:631/printers<printername>
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> You could also after you install cups, install samba and access it as 
> if it were a
> windows printer.
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> 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.
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> Samba is not the difficult to install or use, and you can set it up 
> NOT to do file sharing.
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> Geoff.
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