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On 08/09/16 20:21, M. J. Everitt wrote:
Thanks, I will have a look at that. I suppose that this way I can keep my printer linked to my computer via a USB cable, while the laptop downstairs will be using its wifi link to my computer upstairs.On 08/09/16 18:46, barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:On 08/09/16 14:01, M. J. Everitt wrote:<snip> If sharing to Windows, there are a few gotchas, but the SAMBA docs help you out with this. Good luck!Perhaps I should have mentioned that both computers are running Xubuntu. No form of Windows is allowed in this house. Thanks NeilThen it should be a complete walk-in-the-park .. :) Go to http://localhost:631 in a web browser to get the cups page up on your 'server', Printers tab or I believe *buntu has its own Printers app, and select "Share this printer". Then you can search for printer on the 'client' computer, and it -should- find it. The advantage of the CUPS route, is you have printer/page logs should anything (God forbid) go wrong so you have some chance of fixing it :] PS. you should see a CUPs page by browsing to <server ip>:631 (unless CUPs is restricting it, which it sometimes does) from the client PC PPS. Sometimes CUPS gets itself in a knot, so you might need to restart it with 'sudo <something>' (not electing a direct answer because I still use OpenRC as my init system :D) On either/both ends :)
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