Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing printers via Cups

[Dan Egli]

On 2/8/2021 2:14 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
>
> This is typical. In my linux setup, the printer is always busy. Stuff
> still prints fine, though.


Mine won't print. Says the printer is busy, and nothing else happens. It 
just sits there. Let me give better names because even I can get 
confused. So, we have three machines. Win10 Home = IRIS, Linux Server = 
Athena, Linux Workstation = Janus

If I print directly from Iris, it obviously works fine. If I print from 
Athena it works fine. If I print from Janus, it never goes anywhere.

>> How can I set this up correctly? To describe exactly what I'm trying to
>> do, let's just use four computers in this example. A is the central
>> print server. B is the windows client with the printer. C and D are
>> linux machines. What I want is if either C or D print something, they
>> both send it to A, and then A sends it to B.
>>
> I'd try moving the printer to A, or configuring C & D to print directly
> to B. I dunno how you set up smbprint, but that should send straight to
> a shared printer on B no problem.

Unfortunately, moving the printer is a no-go right now, for various 
reasons. Otherwise I'd just move it to be a network printer. The printer 
itself is designed to be network capable. But Iris is technically not MY 
Computer, and the printer isn't technically MINE either. They belong to 
someone else in the house, and I simply have permission to use them.  So 
my only two options are 1) Configure EVERYTHING to print to Iris. That's 
doable I suppose, but really not what I want, or B) Use Athena as a 
central print server just as it already acts as a central file server. 
That is FAR more preferable because then if something changes instead of 
updating EVERY computer I update ONE.

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Dan Egli