[CentOS] Win 10 and C 6 CUPS

Wed Aug 7 21:37:46 UTC 2019
Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>


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
>>
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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
Phone: 773-702-4247
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