On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how >> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. > > I'm also interested in this; I tried it a while back (from both > directions; printer hosted on linux and printer hosted on windows) and > eventually gave up. The printer works fine locally on both machines. > It's not a network printer (no print server) but just a plain old > shared-on-the-netowork-while-attached-to-a-workstation printer. I'm > not a CUPS or Samba expert at all so don't take my lack of success as > to big of a discouragement. :) > > I'll be watching this thread closely and perhaps trying along with > you, but for now I have nothing useful to add. > > Thanks, > Paul
I struggled and made this work sort of some years ago. Then we all switched to Linux and it wasn't such an issue. Now however I have more Windows boxes in the house and need to deal with this again so I'm sort of stuck. I see Neil says he did it without Samba but I've never heard of that. I thought the only way to make the cups stuff play on the network like a Windows network was through cups. The first thread I point at in the forums was semi-interesting but finishes earlier this year with people failing to make things work. Not a good sign I think. I suppose if I bought a new network printer then maybe it wouldn't be an issue but I don't have $300 to drop on that right now. - Mark
