printing from ms-win to linux withough samba ?

[Erez D]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM, geoffrey mendelson <
geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> 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> 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 ...)
>>
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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)
>
> ipp://<computername>:631/printers/<printername>
>

Doesn't work for me (xp)
If I type: ipp://<computername>:631/printers/<printername>  it hangs.

If I use http instead of ipp, i get the printer's config page and i can
configure it or print a test page, but i want to print a document using it
...


thanks,
erez.


> 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.
>
> 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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> geoffrey mendelson
> geoffreymendelson at gmail.com
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