Printing from windows 7 to a CUPS server

[<h1>Mckennie</h1>]

the other day i set up a cups server, i have the printer going, drivers installed. i can print find from the ubuntu machine itself, but i want to be able to print from my laptop, running windows 7. how do i do that? and, if possible i dont want instructions to be as specific as possible. thanks!

[gmargo]

While there may be a way to make Windows talk directly to the Cups server, I generally install a Samba server and use it to interface with Cups and export the printer into the same workgroup as the Windows machine.

[drdos2006]

You had better do some research on the Microsoft sites. Microsoft tech support have indicated that Windows 7 is a client OS and have removed IPP from Windows 7. Printing from XP is fine tho. If you have windows 7 and want to print to a LAN connected device, it appears Micro$oft want you to buy their server OS so you can print from Windows 7.



regards

[<h1>Mckennie</h1>]

gmaro, thanks for the info, but im afraid i may need a little more. iv you have done this before, might you be able to tell me how to? or perhaps give me some documentation?

thanks

[<h1>Mckennie</h1>]

i have just installed samba, and now i can see my server on my windows machine. i can also see the printer, but it gives me an error when i try to connect, i have a theory that its to do with authentication, but i dont know for sure, and i dont know how to authenticate myself on the local machine.

[quintum]

You can print from Windows 7 client to Ubuntu CUPS server. It wasn't any harder than setting up in WinXP.

I setup cups from Ubuntu gui but it didn't work for some reason. So I did the following.

Assuming you have samba and cups installed and running,
(sudo apt-get install cups samba .... or whatever)

1. Samba
Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf
Search for "CUPS Printing" section
Uncomment:
printing = cups
printcap name = cups

2. CUPS
Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
Uncomment/add:
Browsing On
BrowseAllow all
BrowseAddress 192.168.1.* # or your network address
<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow all
</Location>

This is the very basic setup to get you printing with minimal configuration. Once you check it works, you can tweak it. Or not.

After restarting samba and cupsd, Win 7/XP should detect your cups server when you browse for network printer. Make sure you have the correct printer driver installed in Windows. (I chose the closest model I could find and it still worked.)

Hope it helps.

[Stoatwblr]

You had better do some research on the Microsoft sites. Microsoft tech support have indicated that Windows 7 is a client OS and have removed IPP from Windows 7. Printing from XP is fine tho. If you have windows 7 and want to print to a LAN connected device, it appears Micro$oft want you to buy their server OS so you can print from Windows 7.



regards

That's a bogus technote, sometimes MS's left hand and right hand don't communicate well.

On the win7 machine:

You have to enable the IPP client under print services and restart print spooler (or reboot)

You also need to punch a firewall hole for port 631 so that the winbox can see port 631 broadcasts.

[dhokieff04]

my client using win 7, and server using samba cups.
printer from client using shared printer on server.
sometimes shared printer on server not shown so i can't print
from client, but if I print using cups to server no problem.
Question: why printer on server not shown from client, thx