Author Topic: Sharing printers in PCLinuxOS 2010?  (Read 541 times)

Offline fredbird67

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Sharing printers in PCLinuxOS 2010?
« on: August 29, 2010, 11:45:58 PM »
I'm setting up my new PCLinuxOS 2010 installation and I'm wondering just how one sets up printers to be shared and published on a local network.  In our setup, the computer that has PCLinuxOS installed has the printer connected to it.  Just how do I ensure that it's visible on our local network?  Once I have it configured, I already know how to set it up on my wife's laptop, on which she runs Windows XP.  I, on the other hand, when I use it, like to plug in a bootable USB drive with PCLinuxOS on it and use that with it instead, heh heh.

Keep in mind that in the desktop environment department, instead of KDE, I'm using the Xfce (Phoenix) edition instead.  I loved KDE 3.5.x and in fact, at one time, had PCLinuxOS 2007 on here until KDE4 came out, which I never could warm up to at all and still can't seem to do to this day, never mind the fact that it's a lot more stable now than when KDE4 was introduced in early 2008.

Thanx in advance,
Fred in St. Louis
 

Offline jawz

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Re: Sharing printers in PCLinuxOS 2010?
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2010, 11:58:21 AM »
that's all is really needed is samba to be installed and configured.

install it via synaptic as usual then enter pclinuxos control centre-network sharing-share drives and directories with windows.

once you do that last step it will start a samba config wizard which will ask a couple questions, select the default on most of them but it would be a good idea to enter the same workgroup as the windows machine.

the printer should now be visible to windows, assuming the printer is already installed on to the pclos machine.
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