[plug] Printer sharing Dodgy

[Craig Ringer]

  >>no the address is right. Its more it keeps on coming up with errors 
saying
>>cannot connect, access denied. and each time i turn on the server the
>>comment keeps on changing to something other than what ive got in samba.
> 
> I was thinking that you could use IPP instead of Samba, to avoid any
> Samba access problems and give you a plain-text protocol that you could
> examine easily.

I had some nightmares getting ipp printing going on my Win2k laptop, but 
I've since heard reports that it 'just works'. Who knows, perhaps I 
hadn't reinstalled recently enough *sigh*.

If you can't get IPP working, try starting up a JetDirect server and 
using that to accept jobs for CUPS. So you just send data to port 9100 
(or 9101, etc for subsequent printers) to print it. Windows understands 
JetDirect OK, I seem to remember using AdobePS and JetDirect (or maybe a 
recent HP PostScript driver...) to send jobs.

Craig