[wellylug] printer sharing problem

Lindsay Hunter lindsay at csw.co.nz
Sun Jan 25 18:20:33 NZDT 2009


Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) accessed by going to 'localhost:631' 
on your linux browser does all this.  It is reasonably intuitive and is 
well documented.  It is intended to work with Windows shares, etc.

Lindsay

Colin & Josephine Lewis wrote:
> Our church has a wireless network consisting of 4 PC's running XP 
> connected via a Linux (Debian) server.  One of the XP machines is in the 
> office and has the main printer attached to it.  What I am wanting to 
> find out is how to set the remaining PC's up so they can print using 
> this printer.  I have tried a google search for ideas, but found nothing 
> that looks immediately useful.  I suspect it is a matter of getting the 
> samba shares configured appropriately, but do not want to try fiddling 
> with them in case I break something.  Any thoughts/ideas appreciated.
>
> Colin
>
>
>   



More information about the wellylug mailing list