On 2019-08-07 16:21, mark wrote: > Valeri Galtsev wrote: >>> On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:41 PM, mark <m.roth at 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 > > AHHHH!!! That I had no clue about (I do *not* do Windows). >> >> 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). >> > Dumb question: queue name - is that like printer name, in the CUPS admin > web page? 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: http://localhost:631 on any Linuxes I have to set up printers on. I highly recommend it. I hope, this helps. Valeri >> >> 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. > > We'll see when my lady gets back from SC next week. Thanks very much. > > mark >> >> >> Valeri >> >> >>> mark _______________________________________________ >>> CentOS mailing list >>> CentOS at centos.org >>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>> >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Valeri Galtsev >> Sr System Administrator >> Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics >> Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics >> University of Chicago >> Phone: 773-702-4247 >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++