Sharing Printers in Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy - HOWTO
One of the nicest features added to Ubuntu Edgy was the ease of sharing printers - I never could get it working in earlier releases.
So here's a simple howto:
Share printer on machine
To share a printer on you LAN go to:- System -> Administration -> Printing
- In print manager click on:
- Global Settings -> Share Printers
- You'll need to enter your password and read and understand the warning.
Find a printer's URI
In order to connect to a printer from a networked machine you'll need the URI.In your browser enter:
This will list all the printers on you machine and if you click on any printer you will get the full URI - eg: http://127.0.0.1:631/printers/DeskJet-930CFrom a remote machine you'll need to change the 127.0.0.1 to be the external IP address of the machine or the dns name. Eg:
Use your web browser on the remote machine to check you can view this page before setting up your printer.
Set up printer on Ubuntu
- System -> Administration -> Printing
- Select "New Printer"
- Select "Printer Type": Network -> Cups printer (IPP)
- Enter the URI for your printer from above.
Set up printer on Windows
- Control Panel -> Printers
- Add New Printer
- Select Network Printer
- Enter the URI as above
Too easy. Hope it helps.
I bought myself an HL-5240 and while I found adding the printer as a local printer on the computer, I couldn't work out how to add the others via network printers.
Anyway, I have just now added the printer to Ubuntu Edgy computer by copying the ppd file from the Feisty machine. It's good! Manual duplex doesn't seem to be supported but I can live with that as it's not implemented very well under windows either. (Needing to use the document feeder which is good for maybe 50 pages :-(
Do I have to change something in config in order to make it work?