Perhaps it is interesting to add this to the printing howto. Sent to www@gentoo.org by Chris Kimpton: """ Thanks for the printing guide - that really helped me out. I hope I am not imposing (and contacting the correct person) - but as it was something useful to me, I thought I'd mention it. I have some Windoze machines that need to print - but the printer is hooked up to a Gentoo server (now!) - I was going down the route of Samba as per the guide - but getting frustrated with all the options and whether XP Home would be able to use it anyway... when I found that Windoze can access remote CUPS printers. [ http://networking.earthweb.com/netsecur/article.php/10951_2236011_2 ] I think it would be good to mention this as well on the guide - I guess there is a little more work to be done on the Windoze side in terms of manually entering the printer location - but it was definitely easier than configuring Samba - at least for a Samba noob like me. It would be useful for the time being - at least until everyone has migrated to gentoo ;-) Regards, """
Hi, One thing I forgot to mention is that I got CUPS to accept the connections by amending its security config Allow from my domain - I am not sure how flexible CUPS is on this - eg can it have users - in my case of a home printer, its pretty low risk - but some people might be concerned about making a printer wide open for use... Chris
Timeout. Marking as LATER. Keeping bug in mind (mentioned in metadoc)
I'm taking on this one
I've added a small chapter explaining the steps to have the printer be installed on Windows. Thanks for reporting. I've left the "wide-open" issue undecided, that's up to the user.
