[ale] Sharing non-network-capable printer

[Jimmy Oliver]

Trey Sizemore wrote:

>On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 18:16:06 -0400
>"James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:23 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
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>>>Is it possible to share a printer that is not a network printer?  I
>>>have a Linux box in one room with a physically attached (via USB)
>>>Epson Stylux C84 and an Apple Mac Mini in another room that I want
>>>to be able to use this printer.
>>>
>>>Is it possible to make this printer available to the Mac?  The Mac
>>>access the net wirelessly via a Netgear wireless router to which my
>>>other machines are physically connected via Ethernet cables.
>>>
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>>Absolutely. In your CUPS setup just specify that that printer is
>>available for sharing and make sure the firewall permits access. The
>>Mac should "see" it with no problem. You will still need Mac drivers
>>for the printer.
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> Can this be done in the CUPS web interface or must a change be made
>in the cups.conf file? 
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Cups baby.. I have 3 macs 1 windows box and a linux server(centos).  
They all print to (2) printers on the linux box with cups.  I do not 
even use samba.  The mac's just "See it".  There is no need for 
drivers.  I had to set up the windows box to print to the ipp uri and it 
works, but only with drivers.  No appletalk required for the macs, they 
autodiscover the printer using cups provided the print server broadcasts 
to the network.


-Jimmy