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Samba printer drivers.
Post 302674941 by neutronscott on Saturday 21st of July 2012 12:46:42 AM
07-21-2012
Samba printer drivers.
I placed a cheap USB printer on my small Seagate Goflex home NAS (firmware replaced by standard Debian Linux install) and shared it with Samba. In CUPS I set it as RAW format and Windows clients need to install a driver to print to it.
I could install drivers on the Linux machine; in fact I did for a moment but didn't test it and have since removed them.
So the question is, if I do, would windows clients still insist on rendering print jobs locally and requiring a driver? It seems complicated to get them installed into the print$ share to automatically install.
It's not a big deal, I've only a limited number of computers in my house (at least I've not filled the class C DHCP range yet
) and installing the driver-only package from the web is not an issue.
I could install drivers on the Linux machine; in fact I did for a moment but didn't test it and have since removed them.
So the question is, if I do, would windows clients still insist on rendering print jobs locally and requiring a driver? It seems complicated to get them installed into the print$ share to automatically install.
It's not a big deal, I've only a limited number of computers in my house (at least I've not filled the class C DHCP range yet
) and installing the driver-only package from the web is not an issue.|
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
bcmxcp_usb
BCMXCP_USB(8) NUT Manual BCMXCP_USB(8) NAME
bcmxcp_usb - Experimental driver for UPSes supporting the BCM/XCP protocol over USB NOTE
This man page only documents the hardware-specific features of the bcmxcp_usb driver. For information about the core driver, see nutupsdrv(8). This driver is a variant of the serial driver bcmxcp and uses the same core code. SUPPORTED HARDWARE
This driver should recognize all BCM/XCP-compatible UPSes that are connected via USB. It has been developed and tested on Powerware PW3501 hardware. It also has been tested on PW5110 hardware. EXTRA ARGUMENTS
This driver supports the following optional settings in the ups.conf(5). shutdown_delay=delay The number of seconds that the UPS should wait between receiving the shutdown command and actually shutting off. DEFAULT VALUES FOR THE EXTRA ARGUMENTS
shutdown_delay =120 INSTANT COMMANDS
This driver supports the following Instant Commands: shutdown.return Turn off the load and return when power is back. shutdown.stayoff Turn off the load and remain off. test.battery.start Start a battery test. TODO LIST
Report UPS alarm status BCM/XCP supports reporting a wide range of UPS alarm conditions. Report UPS statistics informations BCM/XCP supports reporting of UPS statistics data. EXPERIMENTAL DRIVER
This driver has been tagged experimental, even if it has been reported to be stable. Thus it is not suitable for production systems and it is not built by default. This is mainly due to the fact that it is a new driver. INSTALLATION
This driver is not built by default. You can build it by using "configure --with-usb=yes". Note that it will also install other USB drivers. You also need to install manually the hotplug files (libhidups and libhid.usermap), generally in etc/hotplug/usb/, to address the permission settings problem. Lastly note that the libhidups file must have execution flag set (ie using chmod +x ...). IMPLEMENTATION
bcmxcp_usb only supports 1 UPS at this time. You can put the "auto" value for port in ups.conf, i.e.: [pw3105] driver = bcmxcp_usb port = auto KNOWN ISSUES AND BUGS
Got EPERM: Operation not permitted upon driver startup"" You have forgotten to install the hotplug files, as explained in the INSTALLATION section above. Don't forget to restart hotplug so that it applies these changes. AUTHOR
Tore Orpetveit <tore@orpetveit.net>, Wolfgang Ocker <weo@weo1.de> SEE ALSO
The core driver: nutupsdrv(8) Internet resources: The NUT (Network UPS Tools) home page: http://www.networkupstools.org/ Network UPS Tools 05/21/2012 BCMXCP_USB(8)