[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Printer sharing

[dutch_fedora@comcast.net]

I just set up printing to a windows Laser yesterday on Suse 9.2. You will need 
Samba with Wins server and Wins support set up in your global file. When this 
is completed goto the Print Manager and Add a printer. Look for the Samba 
shared windows printer in the toggle list. After this you will enter the 
workgroup/domain name and the Server name that has the printer connected to 
it. Run a scan and it should pull the printer. The rest of the wizard walks 
you through the set up, i.e. driver choices and test page. On NT systems you 
will need to set up Authentication if your are using passwords in your 
network or as a guest if you are not and guest = yes is set up in your 
samba.conf file. 

If you need help with Samba let me know. I use the KISS method, "Keep it 
simple stupid!" ha, but it does work and work well.

PS if you are using XP Home on the printer share, note that XP Home is not 
friendly with networking and that will throw a kink in the process. Some may 
know how to get it done with XP Home, but my KISS method won't work!

AB

On Monday 06 June 2005 8:31 am, Fred wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
>
> Fred wrote:
> > I am running suse 9.1 and need to figure out how to share my
>
> printer
>
> > on the local lan. Maybe the answer is just too simple for me to
>
> see,
>
> > but as yet I haven't figured it out. None of the howtos get into
> > printer sharing. CUPS documentation skips over that part. It can't
>
> be
>
> > that hard, I keep telling myself, but it still doesn't work. Anyone
> > have the answer?
>
> CUPS will not create a SMB (aka Windows like) printer share.  You'll
> need Samba.
> Is that what you are wanting?
> ===============
>
> Yes and no. A couple (or more) years ago I set up my daughter's
> family lan with Mandrake 9 and KDE and there wasn't a problem
> printing from one puter to another. Best I can remember the setup was
> from the gui and it was fairly easy and no, I wasn't using Samba.
>
> Now I'm running SuSE 9.1 / KDE 3.2 and I cannot figure out how to get
> one puter to print to another's printer. It should be simple, but
> it's not. I have spent quite some time on this, even RTFM, but when
> the one printerless box sends the print job to the one w/printer,
> nothing prints. No, I haven't run sniffit to see if the job actually
> got sent. Yes, I opened port 631 on the firewall and I am running IPP
> protocol. The cups target is ipp:/main/printers/<print queue name>,
> have also tried several permutations of this. Anyway, nothing so far.
>
> Fred
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
> http://mail.yahoo.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> https://ntlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss