Very new to linux..but I need to set up printing

[Kevin_107]

My MD needs to print from his Linux machine...how do I go about setting this up...Many thanks in advance

[Colin Topliss]

Depends on what your requirements are.

Are you intending to print to a network printer, or just attach a printer locally to his machine?

If you're intending to print to a network printer, is it a stand-alone printer with a network interface, or one shared from a Windows machine?

[Bruce Copeland]

It also probably depends on your distribution and user interface. I found cups to be really straightforward to set up under Red Hat 8.0's gnome user interface. Of course Colin is right, you still need to know what kind of printer and where it's available (if on a network).

Bruce

[Kevin_107]

It will be a network printer..

[Steven E. Protter]

Hang the printer off the parellel or USB port depending on what it needs.

Then reboot.

Printer should detect on startup.

To easily share the printer in a mixed Linux environment, I recommend you dowload and install Samba.

Its easy to share printer with that as well as disk space on the Linux machine.

Since I have no idea what distrubution you are using, I say go get samba at http://www.samba.org

If you are red had, you can get the rpm at readhat and install with the rpm -i name_of_rpm command.

SEP

[Balaji N]

hi
what is the distro. if it is redhat, the best and easiest way is to run,
redhat-config-printer and then do the necessary config.

hth
-balaji

[Bruce Copeland]

Balaji,

Does redhat-config-printer set up printing under LPRing or CUPS or both? I've heard that starting with their next release, Red Hat is going to only provide/support CUPS. That might be a consideration.

Bruce