Hi

In short, I want to share a printer between 2 Debian computers.

I have a USB printer attached to my Debian PC and I have a notebook with Debian as well. I can connect those 2 computers in a LAN through a mini Router (D-Link). In the PC with the printer I have CUPS installed and working. I have also installed CUPS in the laptop

I want to print from my laptop to the USB printer without having to plug/unplug the USB cable. That is, I want to keep my printer connected to the PC, and from the laptop send a print job to the printer. Ideally this would mean 2 linux computers sharing a printer.


I that possible? I tried using CUPS but it didn't worked. Do I need to install SAMBA to do this??

Thanks in advance and best regards
Javier

you don't need samba. you just need to get cups configured correctly.

this is how i have mine setup:

The client cupsd.conf file is as follows:
LogLevel debug
Port 631

Browsing On
BrowseProtocols cups
BrowsePort 631

<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>

<Location /admin>
AuthType Basic
AuthClass System
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>



The server cupsd.conf file is as follows:
LogLevel info
Port 631

Browsing On
BrowseProtocols cups
BrowseAddress @LOCAL
BrowsePort 631

<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From @LOCAL
</Location>

<Location /printers>
AuthClass Anonymous
AuthType None
Order Allow,Deny
Deny From All
Allow From @Local
</Location>

<Location /admin>
AuthType Basic
AuthClass System
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>

There is no need to install samba for that. Just login to the machine to which the printer is attached and try giving the print command. The .conf file provided above should work.

-Prasanta

Thanks a lot, I;m going to try what you said.

One more question, how do I add (in CUPS ) the printer in the client?
Which protocol should I use?

Go to your CUPS administration. Type

http://localhost:631/admin

which will ask for your root login and password. From there go to the Admin page wherein you can add your network printer. Hope the port number is right. By default it uses this port number.

-Prasanta

Yes, I know how to access that on CUPS, I mean, which protocol should I choose for the printer? I guess I should choose LPR/LPD host or printer