Network Printing with Ubuntu
September 11th, 2006
2 posts in 1 day?!?!?! Ok, just a bit of info to share and to record in case I forget someday. I am switching from using ClarkConnect to Ubuntu for my home server, and have also decided to put my printer on the computer that will always be on, instead of my heat-generating AMD 64. I thought installing a printer and sharing it on my network would be easy as pie with Ubuntu. Well, only half of that was easy, which was the installing part. The other half was almost as easy, and only took a bit of Googling. After following the instructions on this page, I was printing from every machine in my house easier than with Windows XP! 
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1. Trey | September 12th, 2006 at 7:07 am
Very interesting find. I’ve been using samba to share my printer throughout my network for at least 3 years, and never once thought of not using samba. This method seems a lot easier to setup than the method I had to do. I assume using the IP rather than the hosts file will allow for use on other operating systems. (i.e. Linux or OS X)
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