2013-11-22 Instead of carrying the notebooks to the printer and plugging it into the current one, I thought it's time to set up a print server now. Especially now that I have the nonstop running Cu- bietruck available. I installed CUPS on the Cubietruck and installed the printer on the administration web interface (using w3m). (I shouldn't use this web interface. I should rather edit the config file using the text editor.) The printer, a Samsung SCX 4100 b/w laser, wasn't supported out of the box. The Debian package `printer-driver-splix' provided the correct driver. After sharing the printer and marking it the default (`lpadmin -d foo'), the print server system itself was finished. These tutorials were most helpful. [0] [1] Then, it took some time until I realized, that remote clients really neither need full CUPS installations nor PPDs. I wouldn't have believed it if it were different, but I couldn't find enough documentation. The configuration, in fact, was simple: echo ServerName klette >/etc/cups/client.conf On Debian systems, there is a package, named `cups-client', which provides everything you need. Then I continued with the Windows computer, which happens to be in the same network as well. (Not my own one, of course.) It seemed to be really easy. [2] I even found this hint. [3] But ... the system was no Windows 7 ultimate but a Windows 7 starter. That's the system that is only half of a complete sys- tem. :-( [4] Okay, so let's use the LPD protocol then. [5] (On the print server, I needed `xinetd' and `cups-bsd'. Plus copying the exam- ple xinetd config from the cups-lpd(8) man page.) But ... well, Windows 7 starter does not support any other remote printing protocol than the Windows' own one. :-( Grr ... then Samba. :-( I installed it on the server, commented out some lines in /etc/samba/smb.conf, then everything worked as wished. At least I got everything running without much fuzzing around. [0] http://www.debianadmin.com/setup-cups-common-unix-printing- system-server-and-client-in-debian.html [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS_printer_sharing [2] http://superuser.com/questions/300986/ipp-printing-from- windows-7-ultimate/301042#301042 [3] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1621089 [4] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2462380 [5] https://yourmacguy.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/print-from- win7-to-macosx/ http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke