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FGHC Junior Member
Joined: 06 May 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Portugal
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 5:04 am Post subject: Sharing printer in LAN with Cups + Samba |
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Hi, i want to make my printer available on the network, but it just doesn't work. The printer works with the SMS PC but i can't print from any Windows Station.
When i try to connect to the printer in a Windows machine it asks me to install the drivers. If thats the only problem, how can i make the Windows computers download it automatically from SMS? |
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gerasimos_h Site Admin
Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 1757 Location: Greece
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 9:12 am Post subject: |
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I suggest you to install printer driver manually, but in the case of many windows machines, download windows drivers from
http://cups.org/windows/software.php
untar them with
tar xvjf cups-windows-6.0-source.tar.bz2
cd cups-windows-6.0
make install
Add to your /etc/samba/smb.conf
Code: | [print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /usr/share/cups/drivers
browseable = yes
read only = yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
read only = yes |
Run the command
cupsaddsmb -H localhost -a
Restart the services.
/etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart
/etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart
You should now be able to connect and get the drivers from samba.
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vadim Member
Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Posts: 40
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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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Good day!
Could you kindly give some kind of instraction regarding how to add Windows driver to Samba?
We use printer Kyosera 4000dn and there is no driver for it at library CUPS.
Thank you |
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baboo Senior Member
Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 676
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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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follow the instructions above. |
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vadim Member
Joined: 16 Oct 2008 Posts: 40
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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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This model not in cups-windows-6.0-source.tar.bz2 |
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gerasimos_h Site Admin
Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 1757 Location: Greece
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