N RamMohan wrote: >i have one printer connected to a machine in our network >how we can access that printer without logging into the machine to which >the printer is attached?
What's distro are you running on the computer with the printer on it running? However, briefly -- you will want to use CUPS over lpd on the system. Once you have got CUPS installed -- fire up a webbrowser on the local machine at http://localhost:631/ Here you must configure your printer settings, (When asked, login with username: root and your root password) after doing that, you will want to modify /etc/cups/cups.conf (or similar) to allow ipp (Internet Printing Protocol) on the subnet/netmask you are using on your local LAN that you want other computers to be able to print from. You may also like to allow the local LAN to access the webconfig GUI. After setting that all up, it is a matter of pointing the other computers at that box by installing CUPS, and adding a printer using the "RAW" driver and pointing it to ipp://ip.of.host.machine/printers/foo_lp Again, that's briefly -- and It's really not that hard. If you need any further help, please tell us what distro(s) you are trying to work with, e.g.: "My server is running redhat7.1, and I want to print to it from my slackware 9.0 box" Just helps when it comes to where things are, versions, and installing things, etc. Good luck :-) - Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
