Re: one printer on home network. How?



On Jan 24, 2:34 pm, Leo Bing Whiteway <leowhite...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have one printer and 3 Linux boxes on my home network.
I have been using Google to try to find out how I can let all 3 Linux boxes use
this one printer. The printer is an HP-PSC-1410 and it works fine on this computer.
Can anyone point me in the direction to find the info for this?
I am pretty sure it can be done but I don't see where to look.
I am running VidaLinux 1.3.0.1 (actually a version of Gentoo) but I also have
Slack 11 installed and I don't really care which Linux I use to do the printing.
All three boxes have these Linux versions.
I used localhost:631 to set up the printer.

You are using CUPS to manage your printer.

IIRC, the CUPS config includes a stmt to control whether or not network
connections are permitted; enable network access to your printer
(through the CUPS local to that printer), and you are half way there.

The other half would be to configure each "remote" system to access the
printer via the network. Remote systems that use LPR or LPRNG will
require some config changes to explicitly address the network printer.
However, remote systems that use CUPS will have access automagically,
because your host CUPS will broadcast the printer availability over the
network.

HTH
--
Lew

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