[NTLUG:Discuss] Printer sharing

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Fri Jun 3 14:44:02 CDT 2005


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?






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