OT: Unix => Windoze XP printing

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>Under OSR 5.0.[567] I've always installed VisionFS in order to make
>printers attached to users' Windows machines accessible from Unix.  No
>fuss, no muss, it works fine, IFF the printers are not Windows-only
>devices.
>
>Under OSR 6.0.0, VisionFS is no longer an option.  I've been using
>smbprint, but it's a less than wonderful solution.  The smbd or nmbd
>daemons are tough to get going at customers' machine that do not have a
>real DNS address; I fake a uucp domain.  And usually when the last page
>of a document is not a full 60 lines, one may wait a minute or more for
>it to come out of the printer, unless a succeeding job kicks it out.
>
>My wife's XP machine uses a Dell 720 (real cheap device, actually a
>rebadged Lexmark z615, completely dumb and controlled by software in
>Windoze).  I can't find a z615 ppd file for CUPS to use; Lexmark supplies
>one, but it's for Linux.

I don't think there's anything Linux-specific to ppd files.  They're just
text files.

>BUT: this evening, I produced a plaintext file and then a postscript
>document from OSR 6 on Jane's Dell printer, using remote printing.
>Yes, Windows XP can be told to accept jobs on port 515.

I think, but could easily be mistaken, that the proper port for CUPS
printing is 631, and that this is supported under some versions of Windows.

This port is called ``ipp'' on Linux and Mac OS X systems, and they listen
on it when running CUPS.

Bill
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