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Linux driver VS xp driver

Asked by mchldrake

We have XP for Client machines We have over 60 sites 2 of the sites are using Linux Suse Iprint. I generally work on hardware issues with printers. I am trying to learn more of the networking side. What I don't know is whether it would be a XP driver on the client side or a Linux driver because it is on the network. I understand with our regular Iprint you choose the drivers from there. I assume that it is the same way with Linux IPrint but are they XP or Linux drivers?

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Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) said : 		#1

What does "Linux Suse Iprint" mean?

Do you mean you use the Novell iPrint print system
on one central Novell OES print server which runs
on a Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) system?
If yes, which exact SLES version do you use?

Or do you mean you have somewhere in your network
a Novell iPrint server running and you have Suse Linux
client systems which run the Novell iPrint client software?
If yes, which exact Suse Linux or opsenSUSE version
do you use?

Some basic background information regarding the Novell
iPrint printing system:

A Novell iPrint server cannot do any filterting - i.e. it cannot
do any conversioon into printer specific data - therefore
if a Novell iPrint server is used, it must get printer specific
data from the client systems.

This means if a Novell iPrint server is used, on each client
system an appropriate printer driver for the particular printer
model must be installed and running.

This means if a Novell iPrint server is used, on each kind of
client operating system (e.g. Linux, Windows, Mac) you must
install an appropriate printer driver software and set up the
printer driver on each client system.

If there is no print job authentication configured on the Novell
iPrint server (i.e. when it accepts any print job from any user
from any client system), the print queues on the Novell iPrint
server are accessible via the usual IPP protocol so that e.g. for
a Linux client system the CUPS ipp backend with an appropriate
DeviceURI for the queue on the Novell iPrint server can be used
to send print jobs to the Novell iPrint server.

If there is print job authentication configured on the Novell iPrint
server, the usual CUPS ipp backend cannot be used because
it cannot run an authentication dialog with the user (the backend
runs as user "lp" which has no access to the users display).
To do an authentication dialog with the user, special software is
needed and for Linux this is provided by the "Novell iPrint client"
software package.

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