SERVER : Adding a printer to the SAMBA share
Friday, 12. January 2007, 16:36:19
Ok, so in the previous post I've showed you how to get SAMBA installed and how to add a shared folder to it.
Now it's time to move the printer to the server too, so anybody from the internal network can print on the printer, this is usually called "network printer" (well its not really a 100% network printer since the printer itself doesn't support printing trough the network, our server will do the network communications part).
Anyways, for sharing printers from linux you have to install CUPS (also known as Common UNIX Printing System).
For that, you'll have to do the following :
The instalation will take some time, as it has to download about 6Mb pf data.
After it finished installing, edit the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file and edit to look similar to this :
You have to modify 192.168.1.1 to your server IP address so that you can configure the CUPS server from a remote computer too (the remote computer can be on the local network too).
Now it's time to move the printer to the server too, so anybody from the internal network can print on the printer, this is usually called "network printer" (well its not really a 100% network printer since the printer itself doesn't support printing trough the network, our server will do the network communications part).
Anyways, for sharing printers from linux you have to install CUPS (also known as Common UNIX Printing System).
For that, you'll have to do the following :
sudo apt-get install cupsys cupsys-driver-gimpprint defoma fontconfig foomatic-db foomatic-filters libcupsimage2 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libjpeg62 libpaper1 libpng12-0 libslp1 libtiff4 patch perl perl-modules ttf-bitstream-vera ucf
The instalation will take some time, as it has to download about 6Mb pf data.
After it finished installing, edit the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file and edit to look similar to this :
You have to modify 192.168.1.1 to your server IP address so that you can configure the CUPS server from a remote computer too (the remote computer can be on the local network too).
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