Hello!
I have followed the advice for creating a persistent link to my usb
printer. But it does not work for my windows clients.
I am letting windows clients use the raw stream of cups and share the
printer with them.
I created a 10-custom.rules with the following line:
BUS="usb", SYSFS{interface}="USB2.0 Printer", SYMLINK="mfp/CX6600"
I edited the 50-udev.permissions file and added to the # lp devices
section the following line:
mfp/*:root:lp:0660
Now, based on what I have read any device created int the /dev/mfp
directory should have an owner of root and a group of lp and both should
be writable.
The /dev/usb/lp0 device that gets created at boot time has the following
attributes:
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 180, 0 Jun 1 16:13 lp0
But my created symlink has the following attributes:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 1 16:13 CX6600 -> ../usb/lp0
Now, for the question, when I create a printer called it CX6600 based on
the /dev/usb/lp0 device all users of the network and print to it,
including windows clients, but when I create a printer called CX6600
based on the /dev/mfp/CX6600 my linux clients can print but my windows
clients cannot!
Can anyone help me understand this?
FYI, I am doing this for those times that I have to restart the printer
and hotplug moves the device. I am also going to set this up for the
scanner as well.
John
