A further question about using Windows XP printers on Fedora

Steve Searle steve at stevesearle.com
Sat May 26 15:14:59 UTC 2007


Around 02:38pm on Saturday, May 26, 2007 (UK time), Aaron Konstam scrawled:

> Someone around keeps insisting that if you share a Windows XP printer it
> will be seen in the list of printers you see in the CUPS web interface
> on a Fedora machine. Is that true because it makes no sense to me unless
> the Windows machine have some CUPS server software on it.
> 
> What is the experience of the rest of you?

This works for me, I think it is because Windows uses SMB, which is a
protocol that CUP can use.

Steve

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A:  Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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