Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> On Aug 6, 2019, at 5:41 PM, mark <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> 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
AHHHH!!! 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
>
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> Valeri
>
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