Sharing Samba printer with XP

[antonio montagnani]

Ken Barber ha scritto/wrote il giorno/on 11/11/2004 07:22:

>On Wednesday 10 November 2004 9:51 am, Steve Huffman wrote:
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>>Much is available in the literature and archives about sharing a Samba
>>printer with W2K/XP. All is depressing and doesn't seem to capitalize on
>>Samba's presence. Is anything new on this topic in FC3? Are there some
>>good places to read up?
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>I tried this and finally gave up.  Since XP understands IPP (Internet Printing 
>Protocol) it's a lot easier to just set up XP to work with CUPS.
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>You still have to get a driver for the printer onto the XP installation 
>somehow.  And you have to tweak a couple of CUPS configs to allow raw input. 
>I don't remember the details, but the clues were in the CUPS log file after 
>trying to print from the XP machine.  Something about setting a MIME type for 
>raw printing, which is disabled by default in CUPS.
>
>Hope this helps.  Believe me, it was LOTS simpler than trying to get XP 
>working with Samba printers!
>
>Ken
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/etc/cups/mimes.conv e mimes.types

Check for raw printing

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