Windoze to Linux printer sharing?

[Carthik Sharma]

There is a published chapter of the Linux Cookbook that I had
bookmarked - to solve the same problem. Please let me know if it came
in useful, and if things worked:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxckbk/chapter/ch14.pdf

Carthik.

On 4/12/05, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 18:30 -0400, amigian wrote:
> > Being a newbie to Linux (and Ubuntu) i do not know if this can be done. I
> > have two computers networked together. One is running Windoze XP and,
> > obviously, the other Ubuntu. The printer is hooked up to the Ubuntu
> > machine that i wish to share with the Windoze system. Can this be done and
> > if so how?
> 
> Yes!
> 
> You need to configure CUPS on the Linux system to listen for incoming
> connections. Check out the cupsd.conf file in /etc/cups/. You need to
> enable listening on port 631 and further down the file, you need to
> allow access from the Windows IP address/network. Don't forget to
> restart the cups system after editing the conf file.
> 
> You then need to configure the printer on the Windows system as an
> internet printer with a url similar to: http://<linux system ip
> address>:631/printers/<name of printer> where the stuff in <> is
> replaced with the relevant values.
> 
> Hope this makes sense.
> 
> Now what I would like is the other way around, to be able to print from
> Linux to a Windows box using cups!
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
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