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On 12/04/2010 17:39, Juan J. Martínez wrote:
[...] More info: desktop Kubuntu Hardy. One laptop Mint 7 Xfce. The other laptop Windows XP.Linux only, I would for CUPS. It's not great (ie. no security), but works. If there are Windows in the equation, I would go for CUPS over Samba. It's *almost* easy, and works too. https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/serverguide/C/cups.html https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/serverguide/C/samba-printserver.html There's some console suff requited, and I sure you can't manage CUPS with a fancy GUI, but it's very good explained. In case you want to share the printer using the Windows box, it's even easier... but then it wouldn't be fun, would it? Cheers, Juanjo
When I have done this previously (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server with a USB printer hanging off the back) I managed to do it all through CUPS. I believe I had to to a bit of tweaking to config files and eventually managed to get the web interface working (I think the tweaking was to able access to the web interface from other PCs on the network). I believe when it was setup all I had to do was to tell Windows to use a TCP/IP port (I had to create a new port, so rather than say choosing LPT1:, USB0: etc, I selected the option to create a new port and selected TCP/IP port). I was then able to enter the IP address of the server, it created a new printer and any print jobs were forwarded on to CUPS.
Of course it'll help if your desktop IP address doesn't change. Either give it a static IP address or maybe assign an IP address to the Mac address of the machine in the router configuration. Sometimes this can be as simple as going into the router web interface, selecting the name of the PC and choosing an option for it to always get the same IP address, other times you may have to enter the MAC address into the web interface and specify an IP address.
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