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Re: [LUG] Problem sharing a printer

 

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 09:17 +0100, aaronmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> Posted by "aaron moore" <aaronmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Hi all
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> I have 2 problems:
> 
> 1. I am having trouble sharing my printer on a mixed system network.  I am using 
> suse 11.1 and have gone through yast and cups guis but my printer cannot be seen 
> from any other machines (windows or linux). All other files and directories can be 
> accessed. Could I post my CUPS conf. file somewhere for someone to look at please?
> 
> 2.  How do start receiving posts from the group again.
> 
> Thanks for any support
> 
> Aaron
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the cups errors log may be helpful also 
some versions of Xp ie Home don't have the ability to print to an
ipaddress have you got samba going on the print server?

I have a server with no physical printers attached but with samba
running and cups 
All the Win types print to this. 
Then this spools to any cups/linux printers on the network
 
Regards

Kevin Lucas
Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved repressed(possibly!Definitely!)
Po House, Minions,
Liskeard Cornwall 
PL14 5LE
01579363386


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