[SOLVED] cups xp

[gishaust]

Hi everyone

I have looking over this issue for a couple of hours and need some direction. I have ubuntu 7.04 server that I have built from scratch.
I have installed samba and cups. I can access the share over the network. With cups I can see the printer on the freebsd box and can print to the printer not and issue but on the window xphome box I can't. I can access the share on the server. but when I go to print a test page on the windows machine it asks for the driver, I try install the windows driver but no go. What I want to know is will the xp windows driver for the hp pc 1600 printer going to work or do I have to get another one and install it on the xpbox so that it can talk to the printer over samba.

Any information would be great

gishaust

[Swmmrman]

Hmm I dont think the windows driver will install with wine. I think your goign to have to go looking

[Maxtorm]

If you can see the printer -- and assuming you have permission to print to it -- the Windows XP driver should work fine.

[PerJensen]

Maybe I don't understand correctly, but what I do on Windows boxes when printing to a CUPS server is to use IPP and completely bypass the Samba server. For me that has proven to be very reliable.

In Windows XP start adding a new printer
Select network printer and select the nondefault option, can't remember the exact wording. You must give a URL to the CUPS server

Example:
http://192.168.1.10:631/printers/queuename

where 192.168.1.10 is the IP address and 'queuename' is the CUPS queue name you have defined. Test the URL first in a webbrowser to make sure it is correct. You will get a webpage to administer the printerqueue.

Windows XP will barf at you and require you to install a printer driver. Install it and you are good to go.

Hope that helps

/Per

[gishaust]

Thanks for your information. You were right the printer driver worked great but I am wondering why I had to do the following to get it to work.

Could not get the driver to install over the network no matter what i did.
I got hold of another xpbox and installed the driver on that. To test if it would share. Straight away on the xphome it install a driver that it asked for from the computer that was sharing the printer. I then changed the printer to the ubuntu server and tried to share it. And straight away the xphome worked. I found out that window boxes don't need to know where the printer is attached to so why do I have to use the driver that the other xp computer gave it instead of what was on the disk, They are the same as i use the same disk?

[PerJensen]

The XP box doesn't need to know where the printer is. Thats for CUPS to handle. I forgot to mention that the CUPS queue in this solution is a raw queue which simply forward preformatted printjobs to a printer. Thats why you must install a printerdriver on the XP box.

[gishaust]

thanks for your help