Topic: E-smith printer sharing?

[Shane]

Also, if a printer is being shared at a different, windows computer, how do you put it in esmith?
For example it's shared on a computer called \\printserver and the ip is 192.168.1.12?
And the printer is shared as HP2F?

I've tried everything, and there aren't many options. Thanks.

p.s. how do you make it auto-download drivers? Thanks!

[Anonymous]

CUPS has a smbspool backend for printing to Windows-shared printers. It also has a cupsaddsmb utility for exporting printer drivers (for filtering queues only).



Cheers,


Robert

[Shane]

But I mean, when adding printers through the server manager, it seems impossible to add a printer that is connected to another computer. The only successful printers I have installed are local printers, or real network printers with their own IPs. Does anybody know how to do this?

[Anonymous]

Installing CUPS will allow you to do that. There are backends for printing to parallel, usb, serial, scsi, ipp, novell, pap, ssh, ftp, pdf, bluetooth printers (not all of them included in the mainline distribution), and there is also a smbspool backend for printing to Windows-shared printers.


HTH,

Robert

[Shane]

ahhhhh, so does that mean I will have to add all the printers in the command line? Or is there some sort of add in for the server-manager? Thanks for your help.

[Anonymous]

There's a panel that links to CUPS's web interface and there a bunch of howtos. Doing a search will bring it up. But you should really be comfortable with the base system first before you start adding stuff. It's easier to break stuff than to fix it.

[Shane]

thanks, I've got it installed