On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, David Blamire-Brown < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't > tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm > restriction in this part of the world in any case! > > I have a locally attached printer on a Gentoo machine. I have a Windows XP > laptop. I would like to print from my XP laptop over the network to the > printer. > I have followed the guide on gentoo.org. I've sort of got printing working > via Samba, but haven't been able to configure it for XP users to print > without having to login to Samba. So I'm looking back at using IPP on the XP > laptop. > > Anyway, the main question is, is Samba a preferred option, or is it just > more complicated than using IPP? There are a couple of brief lines about > printing via IPP in the Gentoo Printing Guide, but a whole separate guide on > using Samba. I can't find any information on use of IPP vs Samba via a brief > Google, but maybe I'm just not searching very well. > > Regards, > David > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > It sounds like you need to enable guest and public access to the printer. Here is an older guide, but it seems to have the relevant stuff you need: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110931 These lines: public = yes guest ok = yes Check out the guide for the appropriate places to put them. -- - Mark Shields
