A further question about using Windows XP printers on Fedora

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat May 26 20:51:43 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 16:32 +0200, A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> It might well be true, as the opposite is true (from a linux machine to 
> an xp machine).
> 
> I think both use IPP on port 631.
> 
> Why don't you just try it?
> 
> Guus.
I have tried it and it does not work.
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