Sharing Printers With Other Windows Systems

Troy Piggins troy at piggo.com
Sat Apr 8 22:00:48 UTC 2006


* Roy de la Garza <rdelagarza at houston.rr.com> :
> I have an HP PSC 1510 All-In-One that is connected to my Ubuntu
> system and I would like to make it visible on a windows network.
> When I install Samba, it fouls up my ability to browse my other
> computers. 

(That's because your samba is not set up correctly for some reason)

> Is there another way to share the printer?

Yes.  You can use 'cups' to share printers on a network.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkPrintingFromWinXP?action=show&redirect=NetworkPrintingFromWindows

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