Is there any way, other than installing CUPS on windows, to get the damn Win laptop to print to my C 6 box, which has CUPS running and a USB laserjet? mark
On 06/08/2019 23:41, mark wrote:> Is there any way, other than installing CUPS on windows, to get the damn > Win laptop to print to my C 6 box, which has CUPS running and a USB > laserjet? >CUPS is installed on your C6 box, not on Windows. Configure the printer using CUPS on your C6 box and share it. Then add it as a shared printer (over internet port) in Windows on your laptop. Google may help you, for example last post here: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1467103-cups-printing-with-windows-10
On Aug 6, 2019, at 4:41 PM, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:> > Is there any way, other than installing CUPS on windows, to get the damn Win laptop to print to my C 6 box, which has CUPS running and a USB laserjet?Share it over Samba: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Print_Server You still need to find a driver for the printer on the Windows side, which is not a given, but you might be able to make do with a generic driver such as PCL5 or PostScript.
> On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:41 PM, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > > Is there any way, other than installing CUPS on windows, to get the damn Win laptop to print to my C 6 box, which has CUPS running and a USB laserjet? >Since forever (ah, about Win 2000) Windows knows UNIX printing. Making windows box talking to UNIX print server its native language makes the most robust setup. It is, however not turned on by default. So (adjust to your version as Microsoft reshuffles location of all the same tools with ever release): Control Panel ?> Programs and Features ?> Enable/disable features In the long list there is Printing, click on it to expand, and enable LPR and LPD Now when creating printer choose to create new local port, choose LPR (or does it say LPD?) port and give your CUPS server name, and queue name. The rest is as usual (choose printer driver, I prefer postscript ones). You should be done now. Incidentally, I use CUPS with LPD listening on the server side, as the last makes the most robust setup for variety of clients. We have FreeBSD server, and client systems are: FreeBSD, Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu), Windows, MacOS. I hope, this helps. Valeri> mark > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Valeri Galtsev wrote:>> On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:41 PM, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> >> Is there any way, other than installing CUPS on windows, to get the >> damn Win laptop to print to my C 6 box, which has CUPS running and a >> USB laserjet? >> > Since forever (ah, about Win 2000) Windows knows UNIX printing. Making > windows box talking to UNIX print server its native language makes the > most robust setup. It is, however not turned on by default. So (adjust to > your version as Microsoft reshuffles location of all the same tools with > ever release): > > Control Panel ?> Programs and Features ?> Enable/disable features > > In the long list there is Printing, click on it to expand, and enable LPR > and LPDAHHHH!!! That I had no clue about (I do *not* do Windows).> > Now when creating printer choose to create new local port, choose LPR (or > does it say LPD?) port and give your CUPS server name, and queue name. > The rest is as usual (choose printer driver, I prefer postscript ones). >Dumb question: queue name - is that like printer name, in the CUPS admin web page?> > You should be done now. Incidentally, I use CUPS with LPD listening on > the server side, as the last makes the most robust setup for variety of > clients. We have FreeBSD server, and client systems are: FreeBSD, Linux > (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu), Windows, MacOS. > > I hope, this helps.We'll see when my lady gets back from SC next week. Thanks very much. mark> > > Valeri > > >> mark _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >