Sharing a Linux Printer

[Doran Barton]

Not long ago, Chuck Allison proclaimed...
>   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.

To share your printer with Windows machines on your network, you'll need
to make use of Samba.

To share your printer with Macintosh machines on your network, you'll need
to make use of Netatalk- an Appletalk server for Linux.

For Samba, make sure you have Samba installed:

  rpm -q samba

Next, you can use the SWAT tool to configure your Samba server. Make sure
that's installed.

  rpm -q samba-swat

If it's not, install it off the RH8 CDs, find it on rpmfind.net, or use the
apt program for Linux to install it from an apt repository. 

You can also just edit the /etc/samba/smb.conf file and then start (or
restart) the samba service:

  /sbin/service smb start

If you use SWAT, you'll need to edit the /etc/xinetd.d/swat file to enable
it and then restart xinetd:

  /sbin/service xinetd start

You can install a netatalk RPM from:

  < ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/contrib/libc6/i386/netatalk-1.6.1-1rh7.i386.rpm > 

-=Fozz

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