I negelecting to make clear that when using IPP protocol I did not need to set up a SAMBA server. That was the major attraction for me and I would suspect a much simpler option. Rick Miles is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says! > I haven't been paying attention to this thread but I just had a quick > glance. A while back before we dropped dual booting and installed cxoffice, > I had my daughter's workstation connecting to CUPS on a Linux box using IPP > protocol when she was up in windows. > > I was using win2k but I understand it can be done using XP as well. This > was back around slack-9.0-9.1 so I'm sure more recent versions of CUPS have > the same if not enhanced IPP capabilities. > > Here's the link to page that I used as a reference, it's still there: > http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html > > John is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says! > > > Hi > > I've read the kde documentation and a number of other cups things on > > setting up printers but I'm still hopelessly lost. > > I have a printer running on this machine and I want to enable my son's > > windoze laptop to print to it over the network. His school work has to be > > done under windoze unfortunately. (Wife's too !!!!!!!!) > > The best way of doing this would seem to be to establish a named raw > > queue to the printer in addition to the one it already has. The printer > > is a samsung clp500 laser so the driver isn't open source but is well > > supported under Linux. > > Can KDE control module do this and if so how do I do it. Alternatively, > > if anyone anywhere knows just how could I do this using cups? I'm not > > keen on the samba root. > > This link may be of interest > > http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html > > but suse yast doesn't seem to offer the same facilities. -- Cheers, Rick Miles Movement stopped is no movement, and rest set in motion is no rest. Written on Pungenday, the 68th of Chaos, 3173 http://www.turtlespond.net/ ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.