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Do I need SAMBA to share a local printer?

I have two computers on a home wireless network. One is running Ubuntu, the other WinXP. The linux machine has a local printer attached to it (which works fine for printing from that computer). I want to be able to print from teh windows machine without disconnecting the printer from the linux machine. I have looked on the web in various places and seen conflicting views on how best to do this. So my question is, do I need to install SAMBA on the linux machine to share the printer or can I do it with changes to the cupsd.conf file (as some sources I've read seem to suggest)?
I tried modifying cupsd.conf to listen on Port 631 (not just local loopback), and to allow connections from 192.168.1.* and that didnt work. But I thought I'd ask before I went to the trouble of setting up SAMBA (which I've never done before).

Thanks in advance for any tips!
-P

Yes, I believe you will need to install samba if you want to share the printer.

Then put smething like this in your smb.conf file if it not already...

Code:

# add to [General] section:

  printcap name = cups

  printing = cups

  security = share



# Add to share section

[printers]

  browseable = yes

  printable = yes

  public = yes

  create mode = 0700

  guest only = yes

  use client driver = yes

  path = /tmp