Wow, that works great. Too bad you have to edit config files manually to make it happen. I have 4 Ubuntu computers in my house and one printer, now they can share. I wonder if a script like /etc/cups/cupsd-browsing.conf could be made for cups serving. Also the printer connected directly to a machine should have a right-click menu option to "share printer on network". Then life would be sweet! BTW in the mean time this hack should be documented in <a href="http://Ubuntuguide.org">Ubuntuguide.org</a> <div>On 10/16/05, Chosechu <<a href="mailto:chosechu@gmail.com"> chosechu@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Niki Kovacs wrote: > Two or three lines to add in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on the server side, > one line to add in /etc/cups/client.conf on the client side, restart, > serve hot. Details see below. Will try. Thanks for the tip! > Forget the GUIs. I'm a Slack veteran, so believe me: vi is your friend > for configuring your PC :oD (I l-o-v-e Ubuntu though... first non-Slack > distro I really dig) You have a point there, which I'd like to digress upon. Allow me. Having fought for years with Unix, I do enjoy having only ASCII files to deal with to configure complex systems. Allows for all kinds of scripts and cron job manipulations and automated tasks and the like. Neat. But there are some times when you just want things to run out of the box, nothing fancy nor evolved, and you have no intention of becoming the expert in town for that topic. In that particular case: I have a printer connected to an Ubuntu box and I would like to share it with other computers on the LAN. On a Mac this means ticking a box in System Preferences. On Windows I have no idea but it is probably not terribly more complex. On Linux I have never been able to sort that through in a repeatable way. I used Debian a lot and dist-upgrading regularly broke my CUPS settings, to a point where printing had just become a recurrent half-day task I had to plan in advance if I needed some things printed out on schedule. I used to have a CVS repository running just to store /etc files because they would be broken during most upgrades. I am probably ahead of my time but I'd consider printer sharing on a LAN something you should not need veteran skills to get done. Ok, 'nuff said. I guess the next constructive step will be to gather knowledge about CUPS and try to build some configuration scripts or GUI that just turn the feature on by massaging configuration files correctly without requiring the user to become a CUPS expert. CUPS is a nice system but we all have other things to deal with, don't we? Same argument probably applies to many other common user needs. I have no doubt Ubuntu can reach a user-friendly level at least similar to what Mac OS has, it is already partly there. Sorry if this sounds harsh, I really mean to be constructive here. -- Chosechu <<a href="mailto:chosechu@gmail.com">chosechu@gmail.com</a>> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- David Foster Scout Master Troop 4003 Bellingham WA <a href="mailto:dbfoster@gmail.com">dbfoster@gmail.com </a>