On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) wrote:
- I've got three machines at home -- one of which is a Linux box. All three
- are networked together and it's working well.
-
- What I would like to do is to hook our printer up to the Linux box (which is
- always on anyway) to have it act as a print server.
-
- What configuration do I need to do within Linux to make it work as a printer
- server? What configuration needs to be done on the other two (windoze)
- machines?
First set up the printer :-)
Then add a share to /etc/smb.conf something like (assumes CUPS)
[HL-1240]
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
writable = no
printable = yes
create mode = 0700
print command = lpr-cups -r -P lp -o raw %s
lprm command = cancel %p-%j
restart samba and the printer should now appear in network neighborhood on
the Win boxen. Use the printer install thingie...
If your machine is a gateway and you do not block ports 137, 138, and 139
from leaving your local network, add to smb.conf under [global]
interfaces <local ethernet interface> 127.0.0.1
bind interfaces only = true
Sometimes on complicated networks this a little tricky to get right so it
might be easier to just block outgoing smb/nmb traffic at the firewall.
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