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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Rick Friedman <rickfriedman@verizon.net> wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Rick Friedman <rickfriedman@verizon.net> wrote:
My wife has purchased a laptop which is running Vista.
I need to know how to share the printer which is attached to my desktop. The desktop is running openSuSE 11.0, KDE 4.2. Can someone give me step-by-step instructions (or guide me to them on the web) for sharing the printer on my home network so my wife can access the printer on her Vista laptop?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Rick
Install Cups. Define printer there-to, and Vista will see it. (Providing you get the permissions right).
If you run Samba on that machine, you can share via Samba without having to use CUPS. But being Old School, I like cups. It has a web based management facility you can control with a web browser.
I already use CUPS to define the printer. I've specified the printer as shared in CUPS. I'm not sure what else to do. The printer cannot be found in Vista. For that matter, the entire Linux machine does not show up on the network when I check the network from my wife's Vista laptop.
What do I need to do?
Start here: http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html You need to make sure your Linux firewall is not blocking port 631. You need check your cups config to be sure it will allow use of the printer from your local network. You need to Tell Vista to add a TCP printing device using the ip address and port 631. -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org