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What is the current state of the art way to share printers from Linux with Windows clients

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Jakob Lenfers

TLDR: What driver should I use in Windows (10/11) to connect to CUPS? Alternatively: What is a better way to print from Windows clients to a Linux server?

Hi,

I'm currently having an Ubuntu 18.04 samba domain member (obviosly to be upgraded) with cups and raw queues as a print server for our windows 10 clients. It works mostly well, even though I have the occasional problem adding a printer driver for older printers. Now we are testing Windows 11 migration and printing seems to be a problem. While testing a newer Ubuntu version with cups, I found a hint in the log, that raw queues are being deprecated. Well I thought, I could try printing directly with IPP, would be nice to get rid of the samba part inbetween client and cups. While my printers are all supported with cups and print quite well from the server, I just cannot get the clients setup correctly.

I tried to add the IPP printer with the Microsoft IPP Class Driver I read about in the Internet, but cannot find it. (I only find questions about the driver missing, but never solutions...) What other driver should I use? If I use the driver that matches the printer, it doesn't work (which makes sense, since cups tries to translates it into the printers language as well.)

Or am I on the wrong path here? I just want the users to be able to print from their windows clients on our network printers and have it centrally managed. (Preferably via GPOs) Should I approach this differently?

Clients: Windows 11 22H2, Windows 10 22H2

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