On Wednesday 09 August 2006 13:27, Erich Carlson wrote: > This is a good tutorial on setting up windows to cups printers: > > http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html Thanks for the link. I don't understand this Hostname thing for the CUPS machine. What exactly does this mean? How and where do I create this Hostname? <copy from web page> Hostname lookup Another common step is to ensure that hostname broadcast by CUPS is accessible from the Windows XP machine. If your CUPS machine is accessible using a name rather than just an IP address then you don't need to do anything for this step. If the CUPS machine is not accessible via it's hostname then you need to set a mapping between the CUPS hostname and its IP address in the Windows hosts file. Under WindowsXP the host file is in C: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS, in Win2k replace WINDOWS with WINNT. The format is simple: # Example hosts entry 192.168.0.3 rock Under some CUPS server configurations you will be able to use the IP address instead of the hostname, but often only a hostname will work. <end copy from web page> Thanks -- Jack Gates http://www.morningstarcom.net/
