[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Printer sharing

[Fred]

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

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