Geoff, Thanks for your help and links, but I still seem to have 1 problem: I can see the printer in windows, it shows the generic (crappy) driver, but whenever I try to print the Windows test page, all I get is the postscript text printed, not the test page itself..
Thanks, Hetz On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:04:12PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > I'm looking for a configuration to print from Windows to my new Office > > Jet which is connected to my Linux box. I can use the CUPS driver, but > > I prefer to use the native HP drivers. Only thing is that I didn't > > find any explanation of WHAT to put in /etc/samba/drivers, why do i > > need to work with user level in samba in order to make cups play > > nicely with windows, etc.. > > > http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/18850.html > > Describes what goes there, but IMHO you don't really want to do that. > > It's much simpler to install the drivers on the Windows side and then.... > > First you need to add the line: > > Allow From 192.168.0.* > > to the cupsd.conf. Add it after the "Location /" > entry or the printer entry. Change the IP address to match the > ones you want to print. > > Install the printer normally, but use the port: > > http://hostname:631/Printer/Printer-name/.printer > > > Uncomment the proper lines in mime.convs and mine.types for raw > printing (should be easy to spot). > > Or if you want to make it easier, define the printer in samba. > > printcap name = /etc/printcap > load printers = yes > printing = cups > > Of course if you really want to cheat and only print out text, you can > define the printer as a postscript printer, for example Apple LaserWriter > and let cups do the translation. > > I have the opposite set up, my printer is on the Windows computer (it's > really my wife's) and I print to it using a2ps for text and postscript > files for graphics. > > Geoff. > -- > Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM > -- Skepticism is the lazy person's default position. my blog (hebrew): http://benhamo.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
