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Re: Zero Config Printing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Gibson)
Tue Sep 18 09:42:02 2012
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Are you still talking about their jobs going through your print servers?
If so and the students have PCs the least amount of steps "I think" you
can narrow it down to is by doing the following...
1. Enabled the local "Guest" account on your Windows print server (since
the student machines are most likely not in your domain they will need
the guest account enabled to send the jobs over via Windows File and
Print Sharing.)
2. Speaking of Windows File and Print Sharing, make sure those firewall
ports are open on your Windows print server (most likely already are).
3. It's best if you can get like-printers across campus (example, all
Xerox Phasers or all HP Laserjet 4100's etc...) that will use the same
driver, that way once the student has the driver installed once they
will no longer need that step one the second/third/subsequent print
queues they connect to,
4. Make sure you have both the Windows 32 bit and 64 bit drivers
available for your print queues (this can be a pain, I'd suggest setting
up a 64 bit windows 2008 print server and use a 32 bit Windows 7 machine
to upload the 32 bit drivers using the print management tool. Note, to
do this the Windows 7 32-bit machine needs to have the same local
Administrator password as the print server, or, you can probably log in
as the domain admin on the 32 bit laptop to do it. There are a few other
tricks to getting the 32 bit drivers up there, if you run into issues
shoot me an email).
5. Share out the print queue(s)
6. On the student computer, all they need to do to connect to a print
queue and have it pull down the driver is go to "Start" -> "Run" and type in
\\printserver-name
and hit enter, once they see the queue they want they just double click
on it. If they do not have the proper driver for that queue it will ask
if it is okay to install it.
If you have Macs that you need to support you can either have them use
Windows File/Print Sharing (samba under the hood I believe) to connect
to your Windows print server, or, you can enable the LPR daemon on the
Windows print server (I think it is called Unix Printing under the
options) and have the Macs use the LPR protocol. The Macs will not
receive the drivers from the print server like the Windows clients will,
they need the drivers installed locally. There might be a
Mac-print-server way of doing it cleanly but I am not sure.... not a Mac
user.
Hope this helps.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Brian Gibson
Systems Administrator
Wheaton College
Are you a musician? If so visit my Arbans Online music site at
http://arbansonline.com and listen & contribute
On 9/17/2012 4:48 PM, Richard Musal wrote:
> Hello All
> I am looking for a zero config printing solution for my public
> printers. So a student walks into a computer lab on campus with their
> personal laptop and they wirelessly connect to the printer without
> installing any drivers and print their document. Perhaps this is done
> via a website or an email address? Anyone doing something like this?
> Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.
> Rich
> -----------------------
> *Richard A. Musal, M.A., P.D.*
> /Assistant Director of Client Services & Operations/Adjunct Professor
> of CIS/
>
> Riverdale, NY 10471
> Phone: 718-862-7933
> Fax: 718-862-7877
> richard.musal@manhattan.edu <mailto:richard.musal@manhattan.edu>
> www.manhattan.edu <http://www.manhattan.edu/>
> <https://sites.google.com/a/manhattan.edu/jet/>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Are you still talking about their jobs
going through your print servers? If so and the students have PCs
the least amount of steps "I think" you can narrow it down to is
by doing the following...<br>
<br>
1. Enabled the local "Guest" account on your Windows print server
(since the student machines are most likely not in your domain
they will need the guest account enabled to send the jobs over via
Windows File and Print Sharing.)<br>
<br>
2. Speaking of Windows File and Print Sharing, make sure those
firewall ports are open on your Windows print server (most likely
already are).<br>
<br>
3. It's best if you can get like-printers across campus (example,
all Xerox Phasers or all HP Laserjet 4100's etc...) that will use
the same driver, that way once the student has the driver
installed once they will no longer need that step one the
second/third/subsequent print queues they connect to,<br>
<br>
4. Make sure you have both the Windows 32 bit and 64 bit drivers
available for your print queues (this can be a pain, I'd suggest
setting up a 64 bit windows 2008 print server and use a 32 bit
Windows 7 machine to upload the 32 bit drivers using the print
management tool. Note, to do this the Windows 7 32-bit machine
needs to have the same local Administrator password as the print
server, or, you can probably log in as the domain admin on the 32
bit laptop to do it. There are a few other tricks to getting the
32 bit drivers up there, if you run into issues shoot me an
email).<br>
<br>
5. Share out the print queue(s)<br>
<br>
6. On the student computer, all they need to do to connect to a
print queue and have it pull down the driver is go to "Start"
-> "Run" and type in<br>
<br>
\\printserver-name<br>
<br>
and hit enter, once they see the queue they want they just double
click on it. If they do not have the proper driver for that queue
it will ask if it is okay to install it.<br>
<br>
If you have Macs that you need to support you can either have them
use Windows File/Print Sharing (samba under the hood I believe) to
connect to your Windows print server, or, you can enable the LPR
daemon on the Windows print server (I think it is called Unix
Printing under the options) and have the Macs use the LPR
protocol. The Macs will not receive the drivers from the print
server like the Windows clients will, they need the drivers
installed locally. There might be a Mac-print-server way of doing
it cleanly but I am not sure.... not a Mac user.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
<div class="moz-signature"> <br>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
Brian Gibson<br>
Systems Administrator<br>
Wheaton College<br>
<br>
Are you a musician? If so visit my Arbans Online music site at <a
href="http://arbansonline.com">http://arbansonline.com</a> and
listen & contribute<br>
</div>
On 9/17/2012 4:48 PM, Richard Musal wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote
cite="mid:CAPAYw2rxVpGF-t4VE_Pm3O0SBGa_2MPhW9JzTU3fKq=CeynNaw@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hello All<br>
I am looking for a zero config printing solution for my public
printers. So a student walks into a computer lab on campus with
their personal laptop and they wirelessly connect to the printer
without installing any drivers and print their document. Perhaps
this is done via a website or an email address? Anyone doing
something like this?<br>
Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.<br>
Rich<br clear="all">
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<b>Richard A. Musal, M.A., P.D.</b></font>
<div><font color="#006600" face="georgia, serif"><i>Assistant
Director of Client Services & Operations/Adjunct
Professor of CIS</i></font></div>
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<div><font face="georgia, serif">Riverdale, NY 10471</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif">Phone: 718-862-7933</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif">Fax: 718-862-7877</font></div>
<div><font face="georgia, serif"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:richard.musal@manhattan.edu" target="_blank">richard.musal@manhattan.edu</a></font></div>
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target="_blank">www.manhattan.edu</a></font></div>
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