SAMBA and Windows

[bryann]

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 12:00 -0600, Lucia Sanchez wrote:
> Carlos Barros wrote:
> > Well, I really dont know how windows can print using ipp protocol..
> > maybe some soft???
> 
> On the Windows install disks there is something with a name similar to
> "Unix printing utilities"; intall that and it will be able to print
> using ipp.  Then you don't need to configure Samba or anything, just
> make sure CUPS is exporting the printer through ipp (preferably a raw
> printer).
> 

This will work BUT a word of caution. Some printers like some HP all in
ones work fine across the network we have *nix to *nix and even dos
based windows by installing locally as a dummy(undetected) and then
using the same win driver via network.

However the XP (home) machine on our net at my son's house will not work
as the win98 driver will not install in XP and the XP won't let you
install the printer as a network printer as it's"unsupported" . 

There MIGHT be a work around for this...but I don't know windows well
enough (we moved to Linux from OS/2 (eCS). 

We set our SMB setup as "user" with SAMBA on the main machine acting as
a wins server This DOES simplify SAMBA use, but that machine needs to
always be running.

Bryann