<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">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. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">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.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">In the final printer setting window, the location of the printer lokks like so: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">
dnssd://Dell%20Laser%20MFP1815%20%40%20little-harbor._ipp._tcp.local/cups<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">
How does this compare to what you did? Have?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">
HTH,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">Mark Clayton</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Peter Flynn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@silmaril.ie" target="_blank">peter@silmaril.ie</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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.<br>
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