[opensuse] Sharing a Printer with a Windows Machine
OK... I know this is probably a loaded question but.... I just set up a wireless network in my home. My openSUSE 11.0 box is wired into my wireless router. My wife's laptop is connecting wirelessly into the network. Her laptop runs Vista. Our printer is an HP PSC 2210. It is connected to the openSUSE machine. Unfortunately, there is no way to wire it to the router. So, what is the best (I guess I really mean, *easiest*) way for me to share the printer with her laptop? If someone could point me to some step by step instructions, it would really help and be appreciated. Thanks, Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool.
On 10/24/2008 09:10 PM, Rick Friedman wrote:
OK... I know this is probably a loaded question but....
I just set up a wireless network in my home. My openSUSE 11.0 box is wired into my wireless router. My wife's laptop is connecting wirelessly into the network. Her laptop runs Vista.
Our printer is an HP PSC 2210. It is connected to the openSUSE machine. Unfortunately, there is no way to wire it to the router. So, what is the best (I guess I really mean, *easiest*) way for me to share the printer with her laptop? If someone could point me to some step by step instructions, it would really help and be appreciated.
Thanks, Rick
Make sure it is shared for your local network. This would be easiest done via Yast, Hardware, Printer. Go to the Advanced Button, Cups Server settings, and set your permissions to share it to your wireless LAN's network Range. Also make sure it is open in the firewall (both are possible to be set in Yast). You could double check via http://localhost:631/admin to verify the printer is being shared. Note the queue name. Then in Windows, add the printer, and assign it the ip address of your Cups server, i.e. http://<ip address of your Linux box>:631/printers/<queue name>. HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 24 October 2008 09:49:08 Joe Morris wrote:
On 10/24/2008 09:10 PM, Rick Friedman wrote:
OK... I know this is probably a loaded question but....
I just set up a wireless network in my home. My openSUSE 11.0 box is wired into my wireless router. My wife's laptop is connecting wirelessly into the network. Her laptop runs Vista.
Our printer is an HP PSC 2210. It is connected to the openSUSE machine. Unfortunately, there is no way to wire it to the router. So, what is the best (I guess I really mean, *easiest*) way for me to share the printer with her laptop? If someone could point me to some step by step instructions, it would really help and be appreciated.
Thanks, Rick
Make sure it is shared for your local network. This would be easiest done via Yast, Hardware, Printer. Go to the Advanced Button, Cups Server settings, and set your permissions to share it to your wireless LAN's network Range. Also make sure it is open in the firewall (both are possible to be set in Yast). You could double check via http://localhost:631/admin to verify the printer is being shared. Note the queue name. Then in Windows, add the printer, and assign it the ip address of your Cups server, i.e. http://<ip address of your Linux box>:631/printers/<queue name>. HTH.
I should've been more specific about something. The openSuSE box is actually a dual-boot system. Seventy-five percent of the time it is up and running openSuSE, as it is now. The other twenty-five percent of the time it is running Vista so my kids can play their games. I would still like for the printer to be available to their mother's laptop when the desktop is running Vista. So, on the Windows laptop, assigning the printer the ip address of the Cups server doesn't seem as though it will do the job for both situations. Is there a way to share the printer with the laptop when the desktop is running linux and then when the desktop is running windows? Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool.
On 10/25/2008 05:17 AM, Rick Friedman wrote:
I should've been more specific about something. The openSuSE box is actually a dual-boot system. Seventy-five percent of the time it is up and running openSuSE, as it is now. The other twenty-five percent of the time it is running Vista so my kids can play their games.
I would still like for the printer to be available to their mother's laptop when the desktop is running Vista. So, on the Windows laptop, assigning the printer the ip address of the Cups server doesn't seem as though it will do the job for both situations.
Is there a way to share the printer with the laptop when the desktop is running linux and then when the desktop is running windows?
When it is running Vista, it would be shared via SMB. Though it is theoretically possible to setup samba on your Linux, and share it in a similar way to Windows, it does make the configuration a lot more complex. I would just add a second queue in Windows, and print to the one that corresponds to whatever the desktop is running at the time. If your home situation demands more seamlessness than that, then you would need to setup Samba, make sure both machines are on the same domain, share the printer via smb, and hope that any differences between Samba and Vista are minimal enough for the config to work. I know we had problems at work between win98 and XP when sharing printers (XP had problems printing to a 98 shared printer). HTH. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 24 October 2008 02:17:04 pm Rick Friedman wrote:
I should've been more specific about something. The openSuSE box is actually a dual-boot system. Seventy-five percent of the time it is up and running openSuSE, as it is now. The other twenty-five percent of the time it is running Vista so my kids can play their games.
I would still like for the printer to be available to their mother's laptop when the desktop is running Vista. So, on the Windows laptop, assigning the printer the ip address of the Cups server doesn't seem as though it will do the job for both situations.
Is there a way to share the printer with the laptop when the desktop is running linux and then when the desktop is running windows?
Under Vista (and other versions of windows) you need to enable lpd print services. This is done under Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features
Windows Features > Print Services > LPD Print Service.
Share the windows printer via a tcp port. It will become a LPD printer. You can share the printer via lpd://ip.address.of.printer/queue_name. For example, on my wife's Win2K computer, she has a DeskJet shared as HPOffice. My printer configuration (and my cups) has 192.168.0.100/HPOffice. On my Vista machine at work, I have the printer shared as lj1320. It is listed as lpd://101.101.101.72/lj1320. Here's a website I used to configure this stuff: http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtosambaprint.html I don't think there's any command line so that's a good thing! :) -- kai www.filesite.org || www.perfectreign.com Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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