Finally I got the remote printing working with pogoplug.
As I explained in my previous post, I've installed cups and splix, and created a "raw" printer with the usb printer as the device. However, I couldn't get it working only with those.
Then Google pointed me to http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html. I've basically followed this all the way, but STILL it didn't work. It turns out the last trick was to use the specific driver for ML1740 instead of Samsung's universal driver. Somehow Samsung Universal driver didn't work on top of cups IPP printer.
I suspect I don't even need splix, since the printer is raw and the driver is on windows side. This probably means any USB printer will work, as long as there's a driver on the client side. All in all, I'm very happy that both samba and cups work now.
3 comments:
What version of CUPS did you end up using? Did you need to make any mods to USB to get it to work (like mounting the USB fs under /proc)?
I got cups-1.3.10 working. Then I made the mistake of "upgrading" cups using ipkg, and it stopped working.
My other blog post:
http://seongbae.blogspot.com/2009/05/one-good-news-and-one-bad-news-about.html
explains what I did to get usb working.
I'm trying again with 1.4.2...
Samsung universal driver didn't work as it was compiled for x86 system.
Making a raw device in cups and using IPP address http://:631/printers/ from windows 7 worked.
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