Cups

[John]

Thanks.

I had thought that nfs would be needed for print sharing, hence my
enquiry to this group. In fact, of course, it is not as it uses TCP/
IP. The information below gave me the clues. I was away once I had
twigged that the URL I needed on the client machine was http://<name
of printer server machine>:631, which gave me the CUPS administration
screen, and that if I went to printer administration and pointed to a
printer I could find the URL for the printer.

John

ddemerre wrote:
> On Jan 8, 7:30 pm, "John" <g...@dpets.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Any suggestions on how to get my XP machine to access a printer on my
>> linux machine using Cups network sharing and nfs, or at least not using
>> Samba?
>
> the crossmeta-file-system-drivers seems hardly the place for this
> question, but here I try:
>
> On Jan 8, 7:30 pm, "John" <g...@dpets.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Any suggestions on how to get my XP machine to access a printer on my
>> linux machine using Cups network sharing and nfs, or at least not using
>> Samba?
>
> I do not have experience in this matter, but I'd try following:
>
> 1. as in http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#8_2
> enable cups-lpd acces on the cups-server
>
> 2. Then as in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c11621675.mspx
> under the title "UNIX Print Servers"
> enable lpd-printing in windows. and configure the printer in windows.
> This part I have tested (access lpd-printer using windows XP
> Professional).
>