On Sat, 2004-08-21 at 22:34, Sean Earp wrote: > Hello All- > > I am getting ready to install Fedora Core on a computer in my home > network, and would like to set up printer sharing between my 3 > computers (one XP Pro, one Mac OS X 10.3, and one FC3). In the past, > I was able to add the printer (An HP Officejet) via CUPS to the Fedora > box with no problems. My Mac saw the printer share automatically, but > no amount of tweaking could make the PC see and print to the printer. > When I shared it from the PC, neither the Mac or the Linux box could > print to the share. > > So... > > Any recommendations as to which box to attach the printer to, so that > both other computers can see it? I would assume that I should attach > it to the Fedora Box, and if that is the case, can anyone point me to a > guide that outlines the steps to allow a Windows XP client to print to > a Linux CUPS printer share? Any information/suggestions/links would be > much appreciated. Thanks a million, > > -Sean I had no problem getting FC1 and subsequently FC2 to recognize and use a printer connected to a Windows XP system. The trick seemed to be to get a samba user created with the correct password information on all systems so there were no permission issues. I was subsequently able to get things working on an RH8 system. For the FC1 and FC2 systems I used the Configure Printers GUI. On the RH8 system I needed to setup the queue in the CUPS interface. I understand you can get a window system to use lpr type print queues. I believe there was another thread about that recently. If so that may be a better way to go. I have to think anything that eliminates windows protocols (i.e. samba) has to be a better way to do things. -- Scot L. Harris <webid@xxxxxxxxxx>
