On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 02:21, aron Smith wrote: > OKie Dokie I finaly got both my boxes talking to the internet > Now for my next learning experience I would like to use the printer on the > first box to print from the second box > (Thru a D-Link 604 router) > Any one have a How-to on this ? > TIA > smitty
There's 2 options: If both boxes are Mandrake/Linux/Unix, then CUPS can share the printer for you. I'll explain how to do this through MCC, but you can also do it through Webmin or any other CUPS configuration tool (and may be easier and more reliable than PrinterDrake). In fact, I suspect it actually comes configured out-of-the box. If one box is Windows, then you need to use Samba. I'll leave it up to others to explain that one. Assuming both are Mandrake boxes, on the box with the printer attached and already installed, go into the Mandrake Control Centre (MCC), go to Hardware, and then Printers. When the Printer tool comes up, go to the Options menu and select Expert Mode. Then click on the Configure CUPS button. Make sure you have the first two boxes ticked to make printers available to other computers, and to automatically find remote printers. Now click on the button for "Printer Sharing", which will show you a list of networks, you should have an option for "Local Networks" which _should_ cover all local networks, but you may wish to get more specific with your actual interface. Click on Done/OK as required, and in theory all should be running OK on your Print Server. On the machine without the printer, repeat the above procedure to ensure remote sharing is enabled. Now choose the tab for "Configured on other machines" and hit the refresh button and if you are lucky the shared printer should appear. If not, use the Add Printer button. If Add Printer doesn't work, then there's either a problem in your CUPS set-up, or it's just PrinterDrake being temperamental. Try restarting CUPS on both machines to see if that helps. If that fails, instead of MCC try the CUPS WWW Interface (http://localhost:631/), or Webmin if you have it installed (https://localhost:10000/), or the KDE Control Centre Peripherals/Printers/Add Printer option which has a nice wizard with an option for remote CUPS, or whatever the Gnome equivalent is. Cheers! John.
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