[CentOS] Remote print problem

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Wed Dec 28 22:42:35 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 17:33, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> 
> I'm not answering your question directly, because to do so,
> I'd need to see your CUPS configuration.
> 
> That aside, have you considered setting up your Windows
> Server with a LPD or an IPP queue for the printer?
> 
> If you can, avoid SMB printing -- for countless reasons.
> God knows I do so even for Windows clients.
> Microsoft's own NT reliability studies show the NT spooler is
> the reason why NT crashes/hangs 8% of the time.
> 

I second that.  Many months ago I finally enabled LPD printing on the
windows print server an linux to windows printing has been much simpler
and less trouble ever since.  SMB printing was always a problem and it
required exposing a windows password.






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