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| By following these steps, you will be able to share a printer from your Ubuntu computer so that Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 2000 computers can print to it.
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| Before continuing, be sure that Samba is installed and configured properly. This will ensure that all computers on your network can communicate and share printer(s). See the "SettingUpSamba" documentation for more information.
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| Intrepid, Jaunty, Karmic, and Lucid
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| 1) Make sure your printer is installed.
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| 2) Open the Printing window (System -> Administration -> Printing).
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| 3) Click Server Settings in the list of printers (Server -> Settings).
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| 4) Check the box that reads, "Publish shared printers connected to this system" and then click the OK button.
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| 5) In the list of printers, right-click the printer you want to share and then select Properties.
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| 6) Click on Policies and make sure all three check boxes (Enabled, Accepting jobs, and Shared) are checked.
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| 7) Click the OK button in the lower-right corner of the window.
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| 8) If you have a firewall enabled on the Ubuntu box you will need to allow connections from the Windows machine on port 631. For the ufw firewall the following two rules enables a windows machine on 192.168.5.4 to print
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| sudo ufw allow proto tcp to any port 631 from 192.168.5.4
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| sudo ufw allow proto udp to any port 631 from 192.168.5.4
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| Use the "On the Windows machine" section below in the Gutsy tutorial to setup your Windows machine.
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| Gutsy
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| NOTE: This was tested with the beta version of Gutsy.
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| 1) Make sure your printer is installed.
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| 2) Open the Printing window (System -> Administration -> Printing).
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| 3) Click Server Settings in the list of printers.
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| 4) To the right, under Basic Server Settings, check the box that reads, "Share published printers connected to this system".
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| 5) In the list of printers, click the printer you want to share.
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| 6) Click in the Policies tab and make sure all three check boxes (Enabled, Accepting jobs, and Shared) are checked.
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| 7) Click the Apply button in the lower-right corner of the window.
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| On the Windows machine
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| 1) Now add the printer to the Windows computer by using the Windows "Add Printer" Wizard. Select to connect a network printer and then select the option to connect a printer on the Internet or on a home or small office network. Type in the following for the printer URL:
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| http://<hostname>:631/printers/<printername>
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| Replace "<hostname>" with the hostname of the Ubuntu computer sharing the printer. It's also possible to replace "<hostname>" with the IP address of the computer sharing the printer.
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| Replace "<printername>" with the name (exactly as displayed including displayed casing) that was shown in the Printers window you opened earlier on the Ubuntu machine. If you're unsure about the exact printer name, you can use your webbrowser to open
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| http://<hostname>:631/printers/
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| That should show your printer in a webpage. Click on your printer link, and you should see the exact URL in your browser's address bar. You can use that URL in the Windows setup mentionned above.
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| 2) Windows will ask you to select a driver for the printer. If you have the Windows print drivers, you should use them. Click the "Have Disk" button and select the .inf file that describes your print drivers.
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| If you do not have the drivers for the printer or cannot load the .inf file, you should select the "MS Publisher Color Printer" driver from the "Generic" manufacturer. This driver should be found on all Windows 2000 and XP installations by default and it gives all the printing functionality one should need.
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| NOTE: Windows XP can print over IPv6 to Ubuntu Linux (tested between Windows XP SP3 and Ubuntu Linux 8.10). Make sure both the Windows and Ubuntu have IPv6 connectivity. You should tick "Allow Printing from the Internet" on the Ubuntu machine. Then use the URL (which resolves to IPv6) of the Ubuntu machine as described above.
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| Earlier Versions
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| NOTE: This document has been tested with Ubuntu versions 5.10, 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04.
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| 1) Install the printer on the Ubuntu computer by using the printer wizard (System -> Administration -> Printers then double-click on "Add new printer" icon when the "Printers" window opens).
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| 2) Press <Alt>+<F2>.
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| 3) Modify /etc/cups/cupsd.conf with your favourite editor, for example
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| gksudo gedit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
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| gksudo gedit -w /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
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| NOTE: For Kubuntu users, you use kdesu instead of gksudo. An appropriate text editor would be kate instead of gedit.
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| 4) Scroll down until you see the "Listen" configurations. There should be two and they are
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| Listen localhost:631
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| Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
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| Below those lines add another "Listen" configuration corresponding to the IP address of the computer sharing out the printer. For example, if the IP address is 192.168.1.2, add this line.
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| Listen 192.168.1.2:631
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| 5) Save the file. Now restart the printing system with this command:
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| sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
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| 6) Now add the printer to the Windows computer by using the Windows "Add Printer" Wizard. Select to connect a network printer and then select the option to connect a printer on the Internet or on a home or small office network. Type in the following for the printer URL:
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| http://<hostname>:631/printers/<printername>
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| Replace "<hostname>" with the hostname of the Ubuntu computer sharing the printer. Replace "<printername>" with your printer's name. It's also possible to replace "<hostname>" with the IP address of the computer sharing the printer.
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| NOTE: If using a hostname doesn't work, you could add this entry to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. This should only be required for Ubuntu versions prior to Feisty.
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| 192.168.0.100 printer-server
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| Replace "192.168.0.100" with the IP address of the computer sharing the printer, then you can use a hostname instead.
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| http://printer-server:631/printers/Deskjet-940C
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| For a driver, you should select the "MS Publisher Color Printer" driver from the "Generic" manufacturer. This driver should be found on all Windows 2000 and XP installations by default and it gives all the printing functionality one can need.
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| It's also possible to use a driver from the manufacturer of the printer. This is harder to setup as most driver installation software from the manufacturer require that the printer be detected first on the Windows machine before the driver can be installed.
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