Re: Networking a printer
- From: birre <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:16:10 +0200
On 2008-05-30 08:45, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
I want to make my printer available to two computers on a network. I have a
Linux desktop and a laptop running Windows XP. The printer is currently
connected via USB to the Linux box. I have given up trying to make it
visible to the laptop with Samba. Moving the physical connection to the XP
laptop might work better, but the location is less desirable.
It seems that I can buy a printer with wireless networking built in, or buy
a modem/router with a USB outlet. What are the relative technical merits
of the two alternatives? From a user perspective, the USB router option
would mean replacing the present separate modem and router with one unit,
and the choice of printers would not be restricted for the future, I think?
Doug.
Your XP can use the printer http://your_linuxbox:631/printername
(or maybe ipp://your_linuxbox/printername )
You can browse to the same address and login as admin, and change
the settings.
use lppasswd to set password and group for admin and other users,
check the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to see what authentication
it expect for the admin page.
eg. if the group sys is reguired use lppasswd -a -g sys user
All other linux boxes can get the printers attached to another linux box
by adding:
BrowsePoll host-or-ip-address in cupsd.conf
Or you can make a client only config by creating a client.conf file
with the contents:
ServerName host-or-ip[:port]
But in that case, it can't have any local printer.
OR, setup the slpd deamon, on one machine and they just find it.
do man cupsd.conf and look at slp.
When this is set, you never need to configure remote printing more,
they are there after a new install.
But windows still need drivers, since they need special software
drivers for everything, and don't seems to just grab the config
from http://your_linuxbox:631/printername.ppd
Maybe it's just so simple it try to find XXXXXX.PPD :-)
I'm not sure, I don't touch windows.
/bb
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