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 03:04:05 -0000
Message-Id: <20030409033005.GB664@badash.excess.org>
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:53:10AM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote:
>
> Now I might have screwed up (probably did, actually), but if the
> cupsys-bsd tools are installed, to fake the lp* commands, then I do not
> see why one can't let samba consider any local printers to be a
> traditional lp-style printer.
>
> I see 3 ways of getting a cups printer working on a windows machine:
>
> 1) my current setup of faking an lp printer.
> 2) your way of letting smbd integrate with cups.
> 3) install unix printing support on the windows machine and let it
> interface with cups directly.
>
> Who is to say which way is the best?
between 1 and 2:
A) Which is most likely to work on all linux boxen? (this is assuming I
incorporate configuration info for non-Debian distros as well)
B) Which is most likely to keep working as packages are upgraded?
and to a lesser degree:
C) Which is easiest to configure?
D) Which is easiest to audit/monitor/debug etc.?
My personal bias is to go with #1, but I can't back up my preference
with well supported answers to the above questions. What I do know is
that I'm not going to write about how to do it two different ways, so I
hope we can come to some kind of decision.
-Ian Ward
