discuss: Re: New submission: Printing with Debian and Windows Mini-HOWTO
Subject:
Re: New submission: Printing with Debian and Windows Mini-HOWTO
From:
Ian Ward ####@####.####
Date:
9 Apr 2003 02:44:10 -0000
Message-Id: <20030409031008.GA664@badash.excess.org>
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:52:46AM +0200, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Ian Ward wrote:
> # gs-esp
> # Ghostscript (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)
>
> gs-esp is available at http://www.cups.org/software.php
used http://www.cups.org/ghostscript.php instead.
> # Windows printer drivers format their output for the printer before
> # sending it across the network. You must configure CUPS to accept
> # the pre-formatted output by uncommenting the following line from
> # /etc/cups/mime.convs:
> #
> # application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
>
>
> This is only half of the requirements, as I wrote earlier. The other
> half is to uncomment the (last!) line in /etc/cups/mime.types:
>
> application/octet-stream
fixed (whoops)
> # Your Linux printers should now be shared to Windows PCs on the LAN.
>
> This is only true if you have, in cupsd.conf, this section:
>
> <Location /printers>
> ...
> </Location>
>
> correctly configured.
> Configuration of access control regarding these locations works similar
> as access control for "Apache", the web server. You need to specifically
> make a CUPS host to become a "CUPS server" (to share its printers) --
> -- the default is that it is acting as a "client" only (or a selfcontained
> "localhost-only" print server...)
>
> A simple example, to change a host to share all its printers:
>
> <Location /printers>
> AuthType None
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From None
> Allow From All
> </Location>
>
> gives access to everybody without asking for a password.
>
>
> A more advanced example:
>
> <Location /printers/LaserJet8100>
> AuthType Digest
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 10.160.48.0/255.255.252.0
> Allow From *.danka.de
> Allow From 10.160.3.13
> Satisfy Any
> </Location>
>
> gives access to printer "LaserJet8100" under these conditions (while
> the access to all the other printers remains as defined in the
> "<Location /printers>...</Location>" section):
> -- *if* you either know the "Digest" password (create it
> by using "lppasswd" -- doesn't work for Windows clients),
> -- *or if* the client belongs to subnet 10.160.48-51.0-255,
> -- *or* to domain "danka.de",
> -- *or* is the host 10.160.3.13.
>
> Per default, CUPS (compiled from source or as shipped by most distros)
> acts as a client-only setup.
I believe that these sections are in the default config from the Debian
package (I never had to manually tweak them) If the same is not true
in other packages/distros I will add a note.
Hmm.. this might have been because I wasn't using the builtin samba/cups
interaction. This is relevant to another thread, so I'll follow up
there.
> Cheers,
> Kurt [ what about the license you using for the document? Is the
> "Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike License 1.0" compliant
> to LDP requirements? -- I didn't read it... ]
It is. LDP requirements aren't very stringent though.
