[K12OSN] Cups printing from Windows XP?

[dahopkins at comcast.net]

Shahms,

Thanks. This approach works with Win2k, but my XP system won't even browse for the Samba printers. MS has changed something in XP (and it was working in XP until I applied the latest critical updates).  See my other response, but this seems to be tied into the group policy settings.  

Dave Hopkins
Newark Charter School
Newark Delaware 19713
> Well, the main problem is that Windows expects to be able to do a good
> number of non-standard things before it will print to an IPP printer. 
> If you turn logging up and look at the logfiles when the Windows machine
> connects, you'll see a lot of requests for files ending in
> '{a-bunch-of-gibberish-with-dashes}'.  This is Windows requesting
> alternate streams (I believe) which CUPS (obviously) doesn't support. 
> Failing to find those, it mistakenly believes the printer doesn't exist
> and exits.  The only way I've had success with this is setting up samba
> to use cups ("printing = cups" *and* "printcap = cups") and then
> connecting to the samba printer with Windows.  Maybe they'll fix it,
> maybe they won't.  The problem is not cups, but, as usual, Windows'
> semi-standard implementation of IPP.
> 
> On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 09:51, dahopkins at comcast.net wrote:
> > Okay, I read an article that said this was easy.  Just not for me.  I have 
> cups working (I can print to the printers on the Linux side, no problems). But 
> ... when i try to specify the printer as http://mysystem:631/printers/ws003p 
> (e.g. printer on thin client ws003), Windows reports back that it cannot find 
> the printer.  I have no idea which setting in cupsd.conf I need to change/set.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dave Hopkins
> > 
> > 
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