Mike Chambers wrote: > If you have a printer installed, and set it to "sharing" on it's > properties, is that enough for another computer (windows vista or linux) > to be able to find/recognize it and use it? Or do you have to setup > samba as well? Maybe. When you "share" a printer in CUPS, then other systems can access it. Share a Linux printer with Windows has other problems. What I have found is that it you are using a Windows print driver for the printer under Windows, then you will want to configure a CUPS version of you printer which has a "raw" print driver. In order for this to work, you will want to edit the file: /etc/cups/mime.types and uncomment the line: application/octet-stream In the CUPS administration stuff, you will need to create a new "printer" which uses the raw print driver, but still access the same physical printer. >From the Windows side, you will need to set up a network printer using the IPP: or HTTP: protocols, something like: http://linux-machine:631/printers/raw_printer_name If you do it right, you will be able to print to your Linux printer from your Windows machine. Sorry if the details are a bit ambiguous, I set one up about year ago, then had a CUPS update break it, and I only just recently discovered that the CUPS update re-wrote my /etc/cups/mimes.types file and commented out the application/octet-stream line. Fixing that allowed me to print to it again from my windows systems. Its hard to remember the exact syntaxes I used in the Windows Add Printer wizard, and looking at the printers control panel shows me the machine name (http://linux-machine:631) and the printer name, but not the necessary glue to use in the wizard for the URL. I was Googling the subject when I found the answer. > Hrm, have thought bout a way to use (if there is one) a printer router > type thing to plug it into to (has usb cable) let all computers connect > to it via printer server or something along those lines (already have > linksys wireless router)? -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
