On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 17:34 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 22:33 -0800, Sean Bruno wrote: > > While I thought this was a simple task, it seems that I am clueless. > > > > I attempted to share my desktop printer for other PC's in the house > > and I can't seem to figure out how to attach to the printers. It > > doesn't seem clear from system-config-printer what I am supposed to do > > and my google for "fedora printer share how to" didn't really give me > > anything useful. > > > > Am I missing something obvious that is supposed to make sharing > > between Fedora machines painless? > > Say which version of Fedora you're playing with, it'll affect the advice > you receive. In the past, I've done this from FC4 through to 7. It > wasn't much more than the following to get it going: > The machine sharing the printer is running F8 and the machine connecting is F8 as well. > Set up a printer on one computer, allow it to be shared (the CUPS > webserver at http://localhost:631/ gives you one way to do all of > this). > > Make sure the firewall isn't in the way (I added the "icp" port, using > "tcp", on the print server's firewall). > The firewall is disable on both machines and they are both on a local network, 192.168.X.X > Make sure CUPS is running on all computers, and the clients will find > the server by themselves. If all goes well, you wouldn't have to do any > configuration on the clients, unless you had more than one printer, and > wanted to choose which was the default. > Cups is running on both machines and the printer reports as shared in system-config-printer. When I try to setup the printer on the second machine, what should I be looking for? Sean
