Is printing a desktop issue?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

lør, 29.01.2005 kl. 00.20 skrev Gain Paolo Mureddu:
> Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> 
> >
> >OSX - i have seen somebody printing to a fc printer server (ok, it was
> >running proprietary filters... LEXMARK laser printers.... GRR!) from OSX
> >word, (the printer was picked up autmatically as long as it was able to
> >resolve the DNS... But every single one of them was named "created by
> >system-config-printer".... Oops!). And the 1 page with "hello, test!"
> >was 20 pages of binary rabble....
> >
> >  
> >
> I've also seen MacOSX prin to both a FreeBSD print server running CUPS 
> and a Linux (Red Hat 9) server running CUPS too... That was at my 
> university. I think you would need to install some CUPS modules to OSX 
> in order to successfully use it... I'll try to ask the IT who set that 
> up at the university and see how did he got it running.

Ie. the OSX guys either got to install some app onto their systems, or
they must use samba?

Not my mac, just some friends of mine. But i *did* believe that ipp was
a standards-based protocol, and cups was cups... So that mac and linux
should work perfectly well together when it comes to printing.

BTW. it works perfectly from the FC3 boxes it is intended to serve.

But something that *is* a pain in the ass about cups auto-config is that
it needs DNS. If it didn't it would be so extremely simple - just plug
it in and print, if cups can't find the correct server at the address,
just use ip address directly (v4 OR v6). Putting up a DNS server /
maintaining a bunch of host files is a PITA. Especially if there is a
DNS/DHCP server running windows that you have no power over, which can't
look up the correct ip for the hostname of the sharing box.

Without this trouble, cups auto-config would be a dream...

Kyrre