On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 18:55 -0500, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
AFAICT, SMB is no longer involved with my printing services. XP can
access them directly, and I configure them as an "internet" printer
via a URL like:
http://server:631/printers/printerName
Correct, you're accessing CUPS directly, in that way.
ISTR that I had to create a special "raw" queue for them
under CUPs so
that the Samsung Windows printer driver could talk to them directly
(without a postscript conversion). So, while my Fedora computers talk
to the "lp" printer, Windows talk to the raw queues using the Samsung
Windows printer drivers.
Likewise, that's the common way of doing it. Though, I can remember,
long ago, not setting up a raw queue, and CUPS seemed to handle being
handed pre-rendered data, and just passed it through (Fedora 3 or 4
era).
Certainly, these raw queues do not appear to the Windows boxes when I
"browse" for them. Another reason why I think that SMB is no longer
involved.
In what way did you browse for them? If you web browsed to the above
address, and that failed, that'd indicate some sort of block between
CUPS and the other computers. If you meant looking for a printer in the
Windows Network Neighbourhood thingo, or whatever XP renamed that to,
then that is using SMB.
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