[xubuntu-users] Sharing printers

[Skip Evans]

Hey Josh & all,

On my machine it calls the local Device URI this:

hp:/usb/HP_Laserjet_1022?serial=FL10340

 From this can you tell how I would share this 
printer with other machines on the network?

Skip

Joshua Gardner wrote:
> The URL for the printer depends on how you connect to it. smb:// is 
> printers
> shared by Windows servers and is usually in the form smb://server/printer.
> If the computer is on a UNIX server running CUPS, you can just use
> ipp://servername:631/printers/printername to connect to it.
> 
> If I remember correctly there is a wizard in the printer config program 
> that
> will generate a URL from the data you input.
> 
> -Josh
> 
> On 1/31/07, Skip Evans <skip at bigskypenguin.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I got my printer installed easy as pie on my local
>> Xu machine, but another one on the network
>> couldn't see it, even though it is marked shared
>> under Settings -> Printing.
>>
>> This is what I did on the second machine (they are
>> both on a simple LAN here):
>>
>> Settings -> Printing -> New Printer
>>
>> I then gave it a name in the three fields:
>> HP-1022
>>
>> Then I hit the forward button where it asks me to
>> Select Connection and has a field for Device URI,
>> but I'm not sure what do to here.
>>
>> Can I provide the Device URI of the printer on my
>> own machine here so the remote machine I am
>> attempting to configure find it?
>>
>> Not sure how to get this URI.
>>
>> Any help, as always, greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Printer is a HP Laserjet 1022.
>>
>>
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