Sharing printers

[David C. Hacker, DVM]

Try setting up samba.  Once you get samba running then it will 
automatically share your printer if it is configured right on your ydl 
computer.  I would also install samba swat.  This way you can go into 
your web browser to localhost:900 and make sure your configuration is 
setup ok.  It will share your printer as a windows printer.  Then when 
you go into OS X you just add a new printer and choose windows printer 
and generic.  This way it will use the drivers you have set up in cups 
on your ydl computer and print out fine.  I even use this to print from 
OS X in MOL, since the USB support in MOL doesn't seem to recognize my 
printer.  Just make sure you have samba installed and activated at 
startup in your runlevel.  Let me know if you have more questions.  It 
also works great for sharing files between linux and OS X.

David C. Hacker, DVM
212 N 1st St #2
New Salem, ND 58563
(701) 843-8179
On May 1, 2004, at 8:16 PM, Frank Hieber wrote:

> I would like to share my locally connected USB Epson printer with my
> wife's iMac over our network, and I would also like to have access to
> her locally connected USB Epson Printer connected to her iMac.  I'm
> using YDL 3.0, she has OS 10.3.3.  I can not figure out CUPS.  I have a
> vague understanding of what it is trying to do, but I can not get it to
> share correctly.  So far, I have completely disabled my printer, gotten
> it to print reams of gibberish, or had it working fine.  From my YDL
> machine I can see both machines CUPS configurations (192.168.1.5:631 
> and
> 192.168.1.3:631) but from her computer I can only see her CUPS
> configuration (192.168.1.3:631).  Does anyone know how to do this.  
> CUPS
> is so screwy.  Even trying to ask a simple question has become
> complicated.  Geez!
>
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