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On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:42 PM, David Blamire-Brown < |
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david@××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> This is a question about a small home network set-up for printing. I can't |
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> tell if this is OT for this list, but that doesn't seem to be a firm |
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> restriction in this part of the world in any case! |
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> I have a locally attached printer on a Gentoo machine. I have a Windows XP |
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> laptop. I would like to print from my XP laptop over the network to the |
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> printer. |
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> I have followed the guide on gentoo.org. I've sort of got printing working |
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> via Samba, but haven't been able to configure it for XP users to print |
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> without having to login to Samba. So I'm looking back at using IPP on the XP |
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> laptop. |
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> Anyway, the main question is, is Samba a preferred option, or is it just |
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> more complicated than using IPP? There are a couple of brief lines about |
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> printing via IPP in the Gentoo Printing Guide, but a whole separate guide on |
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> using Samba. I can't find any information on use of IPP vs Samba via a brief |
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> Google, but maybe I'm just not searching very well. |
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> Regards, |
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> David |
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> gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list |
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It sounds like you need to enable guest and public access to the printer. |
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Here is an older guide, but it seems to have the relevant stuff you need: |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110931 |
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These lines: |
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public = yes |
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guest ok = yes |
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Check out the guide for the appropriate places to put them. |
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- Mark Shields |
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