On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 14:19 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > I routinely set up cups to offer print queues for users whether Linux > > (automatic discovery, automatic setup), Macintosh (via cups or via > > netatalk) and Windows (via Samba, providing APW) and cups has been a > > remarkable print server/service with very few problems. > > Just a brief observation from a non-techie. > I've noticed most people who write about using CUPS with Windows machines > talk of Samba. > I've found no problem using Windows directly, > just pointing the printer under Windows to something like > http://192.168.2.2/printers/lj (in my case). ---- I agree though normally, I handle spooling the other way...printer connected to Linux, Windows accessing printer via Linux. In this case, somehow a requirement to authenticate slipped into the printer configuration ---- > > > Obviously I try to stay away from editing the cups config files by hand > > because they tend to get trampled on by cups configuration tools > > (http://localhost:631) or via system-config-printer (which finally seems > > to live in peace alongside cups configuration tools). > > My impression is that CUPS has improved greatly, > and it is no longer necessary to edit the CUPS config files directly, > as it used to be until fairly recently. ---- I think that the issue was using both the cups web interface and system-config-printer would result in broken configs and that seems to have been fixed. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
