Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Fedora8: Cups printing

SMB printing
Fedora 8 connects to printer configured on Windows server 2000.






Windows 2000 server VAN-STUDENT has created a printer pointing to HP LaserJet 4050 (192.168.35.231).

Fedora 8:

vi /etc/hosts
van-student 15.168.35.240
ping van-student

gnome
System-Administration-Printing

Click the Verify button and make sure that printer share is accessible.


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Windows XP/Vista print documents to a printer created on Fedora.


Access the CUPS administration site and find out the printer name in Fedora.


http://15.200.200.26:631/printers


XP/Vista
Add a printer with http://15.200.200.26:631/printers/LaserJet_4050
Then, XP/Vista can print documents through Fedora.