Sharing my printer with windows...

phillips321 · 01-21-2005, 04:03 PM

hi guys,

I have a HP 1220c printer, i have set this up in print manager and im able to use it for ptinting.

What i would like to do is share it on my network so that windows machienes can see it.

How do i go about doing this?

In the settings i have selected make this printer advailable and i have selected all hosts. what do i do now?

On the windows machine when i click add printer then search network it doesn't seem to find anything.

Please help, im desperate

Cheers guys

phillips321 · 01-21-2005, 05:01 PM

come on guys, someone has gotta be willing to help me

homey · 01-21-2005, 08:21 PM

You share with windows boxes by setting up samba. Lots of stuff on that here.

Mathieu · 01-21-2005, 09:20 PM

You will need to configure Samba, but I don't know if Fedora has a graphical tool for Samba/printing configuration.

You can take a look at Using Samba, 2nd Edition for a brief overview of Samba.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/book/toc.html

To configure network printing, you will need to edit /etc/samba/smb.conf.
Once you have finished editing the conf file, you must restart Samba in order for the changes to take effect.
Here is a sample Samba conf

Code:

#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]
        workgroup = TUX-NET

        os level = 38
        local master = Yes
        preferred master = Yes
        domain master = Auto
        wins support = Yes
        dns proxy = No

        time server = Yes
        unix extensions = Yes
        encrypt passwords = Yes
        map to guest = Bad User

        printing = CUPS
        printcap name = CUPS
        load printers = No

        log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
        max log size = 1000

        socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY

#============================ Share Definitions ==============================
[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        valid users = %S
        browseable = No
        read only = No
        create mask = 0640
        directory mask = 0750

[printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /var/tmp
        printable = Yes
        create mask = 0600
        browseable = No

netcrawl · 02-26-2006, 12:56 PM

You don't need Samba if your Windows boxes are Win2000 or XP... you can just configure CUPS.
Check out the section on "Windows 2000 and Windows XP to Linux" at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/...ndows_to_Linux

doublejoon · 02-26-2006, 07:31 PM

yup just share the printer via IPP. Windows understands IPP