[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Printer sharing

[Chris Cox]

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.

AFAIK, Windows use port 80 for IPP instead of 631.  Somebody can
correct me if I'm wrong... maybe I'm just thinking of when it's
trying to be the IPP print server... can't remember.

It is possible to print IPP from newer Windows OS variants.  Obvioulsy
it wants SMB though.  Used to be a pain (W2K I believe?) to get
IPP going (had to download stuff from M$).