share printer through network for windows clients

[te-tsuo]

Hi

 

I have a problem with my printer. I have connected my printer localy and now i woud like to share this printer with windows clients. I have add in Printerdrake->Cups that this printer is aviable for another computers and I add IP of this computers. The problem is in windows like XP I think, when I wont to add a network printer in windows xp i can chose type of serching of that printer: automaticly -> not found my printer ;connect to this printer->click next(to find by domain tree)-- not find my printer; connect to printer in home network->there I can only write URL, IP not match.

Please help my fix that problem!How can I configure linux & windows to share my printer?

[papaschtroumpf]

you need to set up a samba server on your machine to be able to export your printer to windows. I won't go in the details of how t do that in this answer, search around the forums, it's gotta be here.

Once samba is setup, you need to setup up a printer share. one possible way to do this is to use webmin: in a browser type https:/locaholst:10000 (maybe you need to urmpi webmin first?) and there is a whole section to configure samba, including printer shares.

You can also manually do it by editing you samba.conf file (do man samba.conf).

 

The last thinkg to know is that you need to have the right drivers on the XP machine. Samba has a mechanism where the drivers can be on the linux machine and windows automatically retrieves and installs them but I never could get that part to work. IF there was a driver disk with your printer, install it on your XP box just like if you wanted to connect to it locally. If there were no dirvers with your printer, windows must support it natively.