Saturday, August 16, 2008

CUPS printing, sharing with Windows desktop

Fedora provides standard application with GNOME GUI to manage the CUPS printing service. But it looks like the HTTP based service is more flexible, and the more important thing -- more reliable.

Met a problem when sharing with Windows desktop. The solution is to create a class in CUPS management system. And then configure the Windows printer to use a port like "https://gateway:631/classes/<printer name>". The following page gave me a hint:
http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html

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