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? > > 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 > >