On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:55:16PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: | I'm in the process of setting up a Linux server for my Home LAN and | have some questions regarding the setup. First question is in regards | to CUPS. I see that under cupsomatic-ppd it says that you should try | foomatic-bin and foomatic-db first.
Just install cupsomatic-ppd and select the "driver" for your printer. (it's not really a driver; rather it is a config file that tells cups what your printer can and can't do and how to talk to the printer) | The next question relates to using this printer via Samba from a | Windoze client. I understand the Windoze client needs the native | Windoze driver for my printer installed, Yes and no. The Windows architecture requires the clients to do all conversion to printer-native data streams. The secret here is that you can set up a generic postscript driver on the windows machine and your cups configuration will handle the translation to printer-native just as it does for all of your unix applications. I use this for a Canon BJC-610 which doesn't have any good windows drivers (except for the one that came with it which doesn't support networking). | which isn't a problem since that's what the printer is currently | attached to. The question is will I lose any capabilities by | attaching it to the Linux box running Samba? I use the printer to, | among other things, print near photo-quality pics and I know on the | Windoze side that usually involves some special driver tricks (in | the HP's case I think it's called Photo ret, or something similar). | Will I lose that capability by attaching the printer to the Linux | box, or does it basically send raw printer command over the Samba | link and effectively bypass the Linux driver, which may not have all | the capability of the Windoze driver? If you set up the print spool in cups as type "raw" then you can use the windows driver to generate the printer-native data stream. In "raw" mode cups will merely queue and then deliver the data to the printer. You can configure the printer with 2 (or more) queues directed to it. One use for that is to have one configuration with the cupsomatic driver for your *nix apps to use and one configured as "raw" for the windows clients to use. HTH, -D -- You can't assign IP address 127.0.0.1 to the loopback adapter, because it is a reserved address for loopback devices (Microsoft Windows XP - P R O F E S S I O N A L) http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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