Sharing a Linux Printer

[Chuck Allison]

Hello Matthew,

Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 4:52:06 PM, you wrote:

MF> Use SAMBA to share the printer.  Its easiest if you install SWAT.

Well, yes, I've been trying to figure that out. I've got the O'Reilly
book and have been making entries in the smb.conf file with no success
yet. Since I reinstalled Linux, SWAT is not installed, and I must
admit I forgot how to instal it. Can you remind me? Thanks.

MF> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 15:45, Chuck Allison wrote:
>> Hello pluglist,
>> 
>>   I now have a Samsung laser printer working locally on RH8, but I
>>   can't see it (or anything else) from my other computers on the
>>   network (an XP box and an iMac running OS X). I can see the other
>>   machines from the Linux box, but not vice-versa. How can I configure
>>   this printer to be available to my other 2 machines? BTW, I just
>>   reinstalled RH8, so I'm running LPRng. Thanks.

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Best regards,
 Chuck Allison (The Harmonious CodeSmith)
 Senior Editor, C/C++ Users Journal
 cda at freshsources.com