[xubuntu-users] Printer query

[Mark Clayton]

I'm running xubuntu 12.10 and I don not have samba (SMB) services running.
I do have Avahi services running but I don't think that matters. I believe
that CUPS handles it's own broadcasting and communication through IP port
number 631.

>From Settings Manager->Printers, I clicked "Add". In the next dialog, I
expanded "Network Printer". I picked the server with the printer to be
shared. In my case "little-harbor", in your case pick your desktop
computer. In the right hand side, a list of shared printers were displayed.
I selected the one I wanted to connect to. I was prompted to print a test
page which worked.
In the final printer setting window, the location of the printer lokks like
so:

dnssd://Dell%20Laser%20MFP1815%20%40%20little-harbor._ipp._tcp.local/cups

How does this compare to what you did? Have?

HTH,
Mark Clayton



On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:

> I was under the impression that SMB (samba) was what CUPS used to share
> printers (if by "share" you mean "share like a windows printer share",
> where the existence of the printer gets broadcast to the local network.)
>  However, (a) I may just be wrong, and (b) the fact that your laptops
> seemed to find or at least know about the printer would indicate that SMB
> may not be needed for whatever method of sharing you are using. I've never
> used CUPS without smbd, so I may have a skewed view of things. But I do
> remember some years ago being surprised that smb was not installed with
> CUPS when it seemed to need it to function.
>
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