On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 10:24 pm, Steve Snyder wrote: <snip> i personally use direct rather than samba for the one win machine here to access the cups server. it was easier to setup just tell it the url of the machine http://10.46.46.1:631/printers/laser told it the driver to use and it has worked. i did try samba once and had a few issues conecting to the printer. it is still shared via samba and a freind used his notebook to print to it not long ago via samba i think from memory that using samba didnt show what jobs were in the spool it just sent them but using ipp it did thats about it i think from my experience. Dennis > > Can someone explain, or point me to an explanation, of the relative merits > of using Samba as a CUPS front-end versus doing direct Windows to CUPS > spooling of print jobs? > > Thanks.
