IT/Software/Networking/PrinterSharing

Notes:

This seems to never be completely clear. Just keep trying.

Sometimes it all works out of the box.

Other times you might as well start fasting and praying.

Sharing tweaks on the Ubuntu network

Usually if you add a printer to a machine via usb and then select "share this printer" or "share printers connected to this system" it will just work.

If not there are a few tweaks you can make.

Here are some helps. TechRepublic

in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf you need to allow browsing

First look for the line: Browsing Off Change that line to: Browsing On

NOT Seeing network Printers

Sometimes you do NOT want to see all the printers on the network.

In /etc/cups/cups-browsed-conf

change BrowseRemoteProtocols to "none"

Restart cups.

Share a printer so that Windows clients can see and print.

You need to have samba installed.

CUPS will handle this almost automatically.

You need to make two small chnage to the /etc/samba/smb.conf file.

In the [printers] section:

   browseable = yes
   guest ok = yes

When done, restart Samba:

sudo service smbd restart
sudo service nmbd restart

Also, one would want to allow the following ports through a firewall (ufw for example) via:

sudo ufw allow 139/tcp
sudo ufw allow 445/tcp
sudo ufw allow 137/udp
sudo ufw allow 138/udp