topic Re: printer sharing in Operating System - Linux

printer sharing

Chakravarthi — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 08:42:52 GMT

Hi i'm using Redhat 9, printer is connected and configured to the local machine,

please give me detailed steps to access the printer from windows and other linux machines

thanks
in
advance

chakri

Re: printer sharing

Huc_1 — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 12:34:42 GMT

Basicaly, what you need is to set up cups and samba on local Redhat 9.0 machines.

But this is not so trivial!

To setup cups from an x terminal su - to root then run the following command. (of course this implies that you have installed this during initial install of system)

#redhat-config-printer-gui

from there set up the queue to use cups

To set up samba you need to set up smb.conf to meet your needes (read man smd.conf)
(this also implies that you have installed samba during initial install of system)

for both the above you have to start the service ... to do this

#service cups start
#service smb start

and to make this permanent

#chkconfig --level 345 cups on
#chkconfig --level 345 smb on

also usufull is this link here under

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/

I hope this make you a happy printer

J-P

Re: printer sharing

Steven E. Protter — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 18:43:40 GMT

This guide is reasonable:
http://users.pandora.be/sim/linux/samba.htm

Sharing with windows boxes:
http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-9.php3

Sharing with Linux Boxes:
http://www.europe.redhat.com/documentation/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-10.php3

Adding a printer:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-printing-smb-printer.html

SEP