make a networked printer available to a subnet

[Thomas Milne]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 01:05:02AM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:
>> Should this work automatically for a Windows client? Or do I need
>> Samba to share a printer to Windows?
>
> It's automatic for most linux systems, and Mac OS X systems.  Windows
> being Microsoft has to do things it own way and hence makes it hard.
>
> You can either share with samba, or you can actually use it directly
> from windows.
>
> So if you have a printer in cups named "My_Printer_123", then in windows
> you can install a printer by asking it to add a new printer, tell it to
> add a network printer and use the URL:
>
> http://printerserver:631/printers/My_Printer_123 and then pick the right
> driver for windows to use the printer of course.
>
> Mac and Linux being natively postscript don't need drivers on the client,
> Windows being stupid and making the client do the rendering work and
> then sending tons of bitmap data across the network does need a driver.
>
Well, I must be missing something important, because I cannot get this
to work. I have tried every variation I can think of. I used the
hostname, ip address, I tried the printer name in upper and lower
case.

The only thing that I can think of that might be causing the problem,
is that when I try 'browse' and choose my Linux computer (the one with
the printer shared), I get an error about bad credentials. Not sure
what to enter there, as entering my user account from my Linux
computer does not work. I can't believe I would need to create a user
for everyone who wants to print...

The settings for sharing on the printer are 'Share printers connected
to this system' and in the printer settings --> access control it is
'allow printing for everyone'.

Is there some way I could configure the Linux machine differently so
that discovering it from Windows would be easier?


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