saw some advise that I can print from windows to the linux printer by using the cups socket (631) and setting the remote printer (on windows) as a http://server:631/printers
I can print from linux ok, so I know the printer itself is set. I am guessing that there is some disconnect in how things are intersected on linux.
What is especially odd is that I have two windows machines. I started down the samba side. I was able to get my wife's windows machine to get connected via samba, but mine would ALWAYS ask for a userid/password. I am running anonymous on windows shares, so this wasn't working and backed out of using samba and went via ip.
Neither my wife's nor my print jobs work from windows.
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Could it be the driver? I have an HP Officejet 4215, but don't know how to get this driver installed on the windows boxes. I am using a generic HP OfficeJet driver instead.
My printer is defined as "OfficeJet-4200". I use an IP definition as
\\http://192.168.1.1:631\O
Thoughts??
All network printers in windows require a print driver. When I add a remote windows printer to a windows client...I must specify a print driver. Its true that this is usually done via the add logic directly from the machine that its actually connected to, but its still added. When I add a remote printer, it asks for a driver to use.
enable the cups-lpd daemon (from /etc/xinetd.d)
and print to it using the lpd protocol from windows.
I doubt if you can print using http://...
it might work with ipp://host/queue if windows knows the Internet Printing Protocol.
But I'm far from a windows expert.
How do I set lpr on windows and how do I set pass thru? I have seen the raw somewhere, but can't seem to find it. On the driver, I'm not sure what to do on this. When I connect from one windows box to another, it downloads the driver automatically. The HP driver is a massive CD; I'm not sure how to get or set the driver for the 4200 printer :(
pass through is an option on the lpd server for cups
like
cups-lpd file:
---8<---
service printer
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = lp
group = sys
server = /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-
server_args = -n -o document-format=applicatio
}
---8<---
the -o is the operative here.
I agree with noci, the easiest way that I've found to print from Windows to a linux printer is to setup the printer to print to a TCP port. I don't recall having to setup the cups-lpd daemon, as it was installed with cups (I'm not at home, so I can't look at my setup).
On the windows side (in XP), when you install the printer, you pick "local printer" in the initial menu of the printer wizard, and you don't want it to automatically detect the printer (since it really isn't attached). On the next page, you want to select the "lp (Standard TCP/IP port)". The next page, you select your printer, then the driver, and so on. Once you've created the printer icon, you need to open properties, plugin the tcp address of your linux machine, and the printer name (lp, lp0, whatever you named it on your linux machine).
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by: giltjrPosted on 2007-03-06 at 17:34:18ID: 18667275
What does the CUPS error log show?
As for SAMBA asking for userid and password, could it be that you have defined a userid and password in SAMBA that is the same userid and password that your wife uses on her computer?