Re: CUPS alternative

2010-01-07 Thread nixlists
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:23 AM, wrote: > Windows XP, vista, and 7 happily will print to a lpd printer. In the > windows world this is called a port, and, lpd is one of the options. > > It's 12 pages of idiot blather, but, you can see the XP setup (or maybe 2000 > setup) here: > > ftp://ftp.dlink

Re: CUPS alternative

2010-01-07 Thread openbsd
Windows XP, vista, and 7 happily will print to a lpd printer. In the windows world this is called a port, and, lpd is one of the options. It's 12 pages of idiot blather, but, you can see the XP setup (or maybe 2000 setup) here: ftp://ftp.dlink.com/Printserver/dp300U/QIG/DP300U_QIG_100.zip V

Re: CUPS alternative

2010-01-05 Thread Chris Bennett
Predrag Punosevac wrote: I know very little about Windows but I would swear that I have seen or read that Windows can speak LPD printing protocol. I also have no knowledge of Samba but I would swear that I read somewhere that supports LPD. Yes, windows speaks LPD. I just don't know anythi

Re: CUPS alternative

2010-01-04 Thread Predrag Punosevac
"nixlists" wrote: > Hi. I need to print from Windows machines to an OpenBSD box using IPP. > Is CUPS the only software that will let me do this? CUPS is huge, > buggy and full of security holes. Wants to only run as root as well. > Thanks. To my knowledge CUPS is the only spooling system availa