[ale] remote printing

[hscast at charter.net (Scott Castaline)]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> My wife is now using my laptop at home, while she recovers. On my desktop I 
> have a Panasonic Color Stylus 880. I'm not up on remote printing, and the KDE 
> HELP doesn't do it. I've looked at the CUPS network admin, and it didn't shed 
> much light on it.
> running openSUSE 10.2
>> lpstat -t
> scheduler is running
> system default destination: styluscolor880
> device for styluscolor880: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20COLOR%20880
> styluscolor880 accepting requests since Thu 08 Feb 2007 09:04:06 PM EST
> printer styluscolor880 is idle.  enabled since Thu 08 Feb 2007 09:04:06 PM EST
>  
> hints? how-tos? docs??                                                 
> 
Paul, I'm assuming that you want to be able to print from your laptop 
running M$ through your desktop running Linux? If so I do believe you 
need to have SAMBA running and then setup printer share through SAMBA. I 
had to go through the SAMBA setup thing when I had to give access to my 
system from her M$ PC, and I remember seeing an option to allow access 
to your CUPS printer queue. I don't know if you need to setup a Linux 
user account for your wife, I had to for mine in file sharing. Of course 
the alternative is to get a "blackbox" printserver that supports the 
interface for your printer, and thus you would just configure both Linux 
and M$ to print to a network printer. I did it that way, as there are 
times when I'm on my PC and my wife's is turned off or vice versa, so it 
was more of a hassle to connect it directly up to one of the PCs. Hope 
that helps. The docs on SAMBA at least with FC6 were pretty clear.