The Printer Configuration Tool's
ability to share configuration options can only be used if you are
using the CUPS printing system.
Allowing users on a different computer on the network to print
to a printer configured for your system is called sharing the printer. By default, printers
configured with the Printer Configuration
Tool are not shared.
To share a configured printer, start the Printer Configuration Tool and select a printer
from the list. Then select =>
from the pulldown menu.
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Note |
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If a printer is not selected,
=> only shows the system-wide
sharing options normally shown under the General tab.
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On the Queue tab, select the option to
make the queue available to other users.
After selecting to share the queue, by default, all hosts are allowed to print to the shared
printer. Allowing all systems on the network to print to the queue
can be dangerous, especially if the system is directly connected to
the Internet. It is recommended that this option be changed by
selecting the All hosts entry and clicking
the Edit button to display the window
shown in Figure
34-18.
If you have a firewall configured on the print server, it must
be able to send and receive connections on the incoming UDP port,
631. If you have a firewall configured on the client (the computer
sending the print request), it must be allowed to send and accept
connections on port 631.
The General tab configures settings for
all printers, including those not viewable with the Printer Configuration Tool. There are two
options:
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Automatically find remote shared queues
— Selected by default, this option enables IPP browsing. When
other machines on the network broadcast the queues that they have,
the queues are automatically added to the list of printers
available to the system; no additional configuration is required
for a printer found from IPP browsing. This option does not
automatically share the printers configured on the local
system.
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Enable LPD protocol — This option
allows the printer to receive print jobs from clients configured to
use the LPD protocol using the cups-lpd
service, which is an xinetd service.
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Warning |
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If this option is enabled, all print jobs are accepted from all
hosts if they are received from an LPD client.
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