Tips to enabling printer sharing from Ubuntu
Hi there!
Yeah, I know just how long I’ve been idle in writing a post here. Lot of stuff and experience happened, and you don’t know how much I want to write about them here, yet I don’t write it. Why? Let just say that I’m too lazy to type *giggles*
Okay, so what’s now … I try to share this tips to share a printer to the network.
If you ever been failed to share your printer to the network near you, maybe you need these few steps … By default, every printer in your Ubuntu will be showed on the networks. The problem is that everyone is not allowed to do anything with them. The client always asked for a password and never been approved (I’ve tried with my own username and password, yet still no use).
First, lets check using a GUI (Graphical User Interface), so you who are a noob in this would not freaked out first (yet there are huge possibility after this you would hack into the configuration files).
Okay, go to the System > Administration > Printing. Make sure that the printer you want to share is listed there. Right click the printer and make sure that options Enabled and Shared is checked. After that, in the same window go to Server > Settings and checks “Publish shared printer connected to this system” and “Allow printing from the Internet”. Klik OK, it would be good if you restart your machine (I may assumed that you noobs would not know what to do if I said ‘restart your samba server’, but if you know what I mean, do it. I’ll explain how to do it later) and test them (try to connect from other machine and print using it).
If the other machine is still asking for password, lets try another way, from the configuration files. Okay, let do it in a noob way. Open your terminal (Application > Accesories > Terminal), and type :
sudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
If it asks for password, fill it with your password.
Now, I assumed (again) that a text editor is opened with a bunch of text on it. Well, that’s what we call Samba Configuration File. Yes, it is not scary binary file, it is a plain old text file. Will be easy for you to understand it if you could read English ^^
Find on that file part that consisting of these lines:
[printers]
comment = All Printers
browseable = no
path = /var/spool/samba
printable = yes
guest ok = no
read only = yes
create mask = 0700
and this …
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/printers
browseable = yes
read only = yes
guest ok = no
What to do? Okay, change all the “guest ok = no” into “guest ok = yes”. Save the file (you know how), and close it. And again, restart the samba server by typing these ini the terminal:
sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
There you go, your printer will be accessable from other machines now. Happy Sunday everyone!
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