Is there any way, other than installing CUPS on windows, to get the damn Win laptop to print to my C 6 box, which has CUPS running and a USB laserjet?
mark
On 06/08/2019 23:41, mark wrote:
CUPS is installed on your C6 box, not on Windows.
Configure the printer using CUPS on your C6 box and share it. Then add it as a shared printer (over internet port) in Windows on your laptop.
Google may help you, for example last post here:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1467103-cups-printing-with-windows-10
On Aug 6, 2019, at 4:41 PM, mark m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Is there any way, other than installing CUPS on windows, to get the damn Win laptop to print to my C 6 box, which has CUPS running and a USB laserjet?
Share it over Samba:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Print_Server
You still need to find a driver for the printer on the Windows side, which is not a given, but you might be able to make do with a generic driver such as PCL5 or PostScript.
On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:41 PM, mark m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Is there any way, other than installing CUPS on windows, to get the damn Win laptop to print to my C 6 box, which has CUPS running and a USB laserjet?
Since forever (ah, about Win 2000) Windows knows UNIX printing. Making windows box talking to UNIX print server its native language makes the most robust setup. It is, however not turned on by default. So (adjust to your version as Microsoft reshuffles location of all the same tools with ever release):
Control Panel —> Programs and Features —> Enable/disable features
In the long list there is Printing, click on it to expand, and enable LPR and LPD
Now when creating printer choose to create new local port, choose LPR (or does it say LPD?) port and give your CUPS server name, and queue name. The rest is as usual (choose printer driver, I prefer postscript ones).
You should be done now. Incidentally, I use CUPS with LPD listening on the server side, as the last makes the most robust setup for variety of clients. We have FreeBSD server, and client systems are: FreeBSD, Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu), Windows, MacOS.
I hope, this helps.
Valeri
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On 2019-08-07 16:21, mark wrote:
Yes,correct. Since forever it was called queue name, GUI tools often (or sometimes?) call it printer name, pretty much following M$ tradition. In CUPS web interface on page "Printers" first column title calls it explicitly "Queue name". Incidentally, I use CUPS' own web interface, I never use Linux's print configuration tools (part of Linux admin tools). Well, I used them once somewhere around RedHat 7.1, and was quite unhappy, so I use CUPS web interface:
on any Linuxes I have to set up printers on. I highly recommend it.
I hope, this helps.
Valeri
At Wed, 7 Aug 2019 17:21:53 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Yes.
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