Printing with CUPSCUPS (COMMON UNIX PRINTING SYSTEM)

A printing system handles the tasks involved in getting a print job from an application

(or the command line) through the appropriate filters

LPD and LPR Traditionally UNIX had two printing systems the BSD Line Printer Daemon (LPD)

and the System V Line Printer system (LPR) Linux adopted these systems at first and both UNIX

and Linux have seen modifications to and replacements for these systems Today CUPS is the

default printing system under FedoraRHEL

1 CUPS CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is a cross-platform print server built around IPP (next)

2 CUPS provides many printer drivers and can print different types of files including PostScript

3 Because it is built on IPP and written to be portable CUPS runs under many operating systems including Linux and Windows Other UNIX variants including Mac OS X use CUPS recent versions of Windows include the ability to print to IPP printers

4 Thus CUPS is an ideal solution for printing in a heterogeneous environment

5 CUPS provides System V and BSD command-line interfaces and in addition to IPP supports LPDLPR HTTP SMB and JetDirect (socket) protocols among others

Network printers Printers connected directly to a network are functionally equivalent to printers

connected to a system running a print server They listen on the same ports as systems running

print servers and they queue jobs

Printers and queues On a modern computing system when you ldquosend a job to the printerrdquo you actually add the job to the list of jobs waiting their turn to be printed on a printer This list is

called a print queue or simply a queue The phrase configuring (or setting up) a printer is often used to mean configuring a (print) queue This chapter uses these phrases interchangeably

Prerequisites

Make sure the following packages are installed (most are installed with the base FedoraRHEL system)

bull cups

bull system-config-printer (optional)

bull cups-pdf (optional Fedora only sets up a virtual PDF printer)

The CUPS Web interface requires an X server and a Web browser Although it is a poor solution

a text Web browser such as elinks (elinks package) will work too

cups init script Run chkconfig to cause CUPS (the cupsd daemon) to start when the system goes into

multiuser mode

chkconfig cups on

Start CUPS

service cups start

Firewall A CUPS server normally uses TCP port 631 for an IPP connection and port 80 for

an LPRLPD connection If the CUPS server system accepts print jobs from remote

systems and is running a firewall you need to open one or both of these ports

PDF printer You can set up a virtual PDF printer by installing the cups-pdf package or you can

set up this printer manually

Configuring a Printer Using system-config-printerMain menu System Administration Printing (RHEL) or give the command

systemconfig-printer from a terminal emulator or Run Application window (ALT-F2)

Default printer Highlight a printer in the Printing window and select menubar Printer Set as

Default from the window menu to specify the highlighted printer as the default printer If just

one printer appears in the Printing window it is the default printer you do not have to set it up

as such

Server Settings Select menubar Server Settings from the Printing window to display the Server

Settings window The top two check boxes in this window specify whether systemconfig-

printer displays printers that are shared by other systems and whether the local system

publishes printers it shares You control whether a specific printer is shared from the Policies

selection of the Printer Properties window (next)

Configuration Selections

Select menubar Printer Properties to display the Printer Properties window

This section describes the six selections found in the frame at the left side of the

Printer Properties window These selections allow you to configure the printer you

chose in the Printing window

The text boxes labeled Description and Location hold information that can help users identify

The printer The system does not use this information change it as you like For example

it might be helpful to put the physical location of the printer such as Samrsquos Office in the text

box labeled Location The text boxes labeled Device URI and Make and Model specify the

location of the printer on the computer or network and type of the printer

Policies The Policies selection enables you to control printer state sharing and banners

Under the word State are check boxes labeled Enabled Accepting jobs and Shared

Putting a tick in the check box labeled Shared shares the printer with other systems if the

local system publishes shared printers (see ldquoServer Settingsrdquo) The Policies tab also controls

whether the printer prints banners before and after jobs and what CUPS does when the printer

reports an error

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

A printing system handles the tasks involved in getting a print job from an application

(or the command line) through the appropriate filters

LPD and LPR Traditionally UNIX had two printing systems the BSD Line Printer Daemon (LPD)

and the System V Line Printer system (LPR) Linux adopted these systems at first and both UNIX

and Linux have seen modifications to and replacements for these systems Today CUPS is the

default printing system under FedoraRHEL

1 CUPS CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is a cross-platform print server built around IPP (next)

2 CUPS provides many printer drivers and can print different types of files including PostScript

3 Because it is built on IPP and written to be portable CUPS runs under many operating systems including Linux and Windows Other UNIX variants including Mac OS X use CUPS recent versions of Windows include the ability to print to IPP printers

4 Thus CUPS is an ideal solution for printing in a heterogeneous environment

5 CUPS provides System V and BSD command-line interfaces and in addition to IPP supports LPDLPR HTTP SMB and JetDirect (socket) protocols among others

Network printers Printers connected directly to a network are functionally equivalent to printers

connected to a system running a print server They listen on the same ports as systems running

print servers and they queue jobs

Printers and queues On a modern computing system when you ldquosend a job to the printerrdquo you actually add the job to the list of jobs waiting their turn to be printed on a printer This list is

called a print queue or simply a queue The phrase configuring (or setting up) a printer is often used to mean configuring a (print) queue This chapter uses these phrases interchangeably

Prerequisites

Make sure the following packages are installed (most are installed with the base FedoraRHEL system)

bull cups

bull system-config-printer (optional)

bull cups-pdf (optional Fedora only sets up a virtual PDF printer)

The CUPS Web interface requires an X server and a Web browser Although it is a poor solution

a text Web browser such as elinks (elinks package) will work too

cups init script Run chkconfig to cause CUPS (the cupsd daemon) to start when the system goes into

multiuser mode

chkconfig cups on

Start CUPS

service cups start

Firewall A CUPS server normally uses TCP port 631 for an IPP connection and port 80 for

an LPRLPD connection If the CUPS server system accepts print jobs from remote

systems and is running a firewall you need to open one or both of these ports

PDF printer You can set up a virtual PDF printer by installing the cups-pdf package or you can

set up this printer manually

Configuring a Printer Using system-config-printerMain menu System Administration Printing (RHEL) or give the command

systemconfig-printer from a terminal emulator or Run Application window (ALT-F2)

Default printer Highlight a printer in the Printing window and select menubar Printer Set as

Default from the window menu to specify the highlighted printer as the default printer If just

one printer appears in the Printing window it is the default printer you do not have to set it up

as such

Server Settings Select menubar Server Settings from the Printing window to display the Server

Settings window The top two check boxes in this window specify whether systemconfig-

printer displays printers that are shared by other systems and whether the local system

publishes printers it shares You control whether a specific printer is shared from the Policies

selection of the Printer Properties window (next)

Configuration Selections

Select menubar Printer Properties to display the Printer Properties window

This section describes the six selections found in the frame at the left side of the

Printer Properties window These selections allow you to configure the printer you

chose in the Printing window

The text boxes labeled Description and Location hold information that can help users identify

The printer The system does not use this information change it as you like For example

it might be helpful to put the physical location of the printer such as Samrsquos Office in the text

box labeled Location The text boxes labeled Device URI and Make and Model specify the

location of the printer on the computer or network and type of the printer

Policies The Policies selection enables you to control printer state sharing and banners

Under the word State are check boxes labeled Enabled Accepting jobs and Shared

Putting a tick in the check box labeled Shared shares the printer with other systems if the

local system publishes shared printers (see ldquoServer Settingsrdquo) The Policies tab also controls

whether the printer prints banners before and after jobs and what CUPS does when the printer

reports an error

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

1 CUPS CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is a cross-platform print server built around IPP (next)

2 CUPS provides many printer drivers and can print different types of files including PostScript

3 Because it is built on IPP and written to be portable CUPS runs under many operating systems including Linux and Windows Other UNIX variants including Mac OS X use CUPS recent versions of Windows include the ability to print to IPP printers

4 Thus CUPS is an ideal solution for printing in a heterogeneous environment

5 CUPS provides System V and BSD command-line interfaces and in addition to IPP supports LPDLPR HTTP SMB and JetDirect (socket) protocols among others

Network printers Printers connected directly to a network are functionally equivalent to printers

connected to a system running a print server They listen on the same ports as systems running

print servers and they queue jobs

Printers and queues On a modern computing system when you ldquosend a job to the printerrdquo you actually add the job to the list of jobs waiting their turn to be printed on a printer This list is

called a print queue or simply a queue The phrase configuring (or setting up) a printer is often used to mean configuring a (print) queue This chapter uses these phrases interchangeably

Prerequisites

Make sure the following packages are installed (most are installed with the base FedoraRHEL system)

bull cups

bull system-config-printer (optional)

bull cups-pdf (optional Fedora only sets up a virtual PDF printer)

The CUPS Web interface requires an X server and a Web browser Although it is a poor solution

a text Web browser such as elinks (elinks package) will work too

cups init script Run chkconfig to cause CUPS (the cupsd daemon) to start when the system goes into

multiuser mode

chkconfig cups on

Start CUPS

service cups start

Firewall A CUPS server normally uses TCP port 631 for an IPP connection and port 80 for

an LPRLPD connection If the CUPS server system accepts print jobs from remote

systems and is running a firewall you need to open one or both of these ports

PDF printer You can set up a virtual PDF printer by installing the cups-pdf package or you can

set up this printer manually

Configuring a Printer Using system-config-printerMain menu System Administration Printing (RHEL) or give the command

systemconfig-printer from a terminal emulator or Run Application window (ALT-F2)

Default printer Highlight a printer in the Printing window and select menubar Printer Set as

Default from the window menu to specify the highlighted printer as the default printer If just

one printer appears in the Printing window it is the default printer you do not have to set it up

as such

Server Settings Select menubar Server Settings from the Printing window to display the Server

Settings window The top two check boxes in this window specify whether systemconfig-

printer displays printers that are shared by other systems and whether the local system

publishes printers it shares You control whether a specific printer is shared from the Policies

selection of the Printer Properties window (next)

Configuration Selections

Select menubar Printer Properties to display the Printer Properties window

This section describes the six selections found in the frame at the left side of the

Printer Properties window These selections allow you to configure the printer you

chose in the Printing window

The text boxes labeled Description and Location hold information that can help users identify

The printer The system does not use this information change it as you like For example

it might be helpful to put the physical location of the printer such as Samrsquos Office in the text

box labeled Location The text boxes labeled Device URI and Make and Model specify the

location of the printer on the computer or network and type of the printer

Policies The Policies selection enables you to control printer state sharing and banners

Under the word State are check boxes labeled Enabled Accepting jobs and Shared

Putting a tick in the check box labeled Shared shares the printer with other systems if the

local system publishes shared printers (see ldquoServer Settingsrdquo) The Policies tab also controls

whether the printer prints banners before and after jobs and what CUPS does when the printer

reports an error

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Network printers Printers connected directly to a network are functionally equivalent to printers

connected to a system running a print server They listen on the same ports as systems running

print servers and they queue jobs

Printers and queues On a modern computing system when you ldquosend a job to the printerrdquo you actually add the job to the list of jobs waiting their turn to be printed on a printer This list is

called a print queue or simply a queue The phrase configuring (or setting up) a printer is often used to mean configuring a (print) queue This chapter uses these phrases interchangeably

Prerequisites

Make sure the following packages are installed (most are installed with the base FedoraRHEL system)

bull cups

bull system-config-printer (optional)

bull cups-pdf (optional Fedora only sets up a virtual PDF printer)

The CUPS Web interface requires an X server and a Web browser Although it is a poor solution

a text Web browser such as elinks (elinks package) will work too

cups init script Run chkconfig to cause CUPS (the cupsd daemon) to start when the system goes into

multiuser mode

chkconfig cups on

Start CUPS

service cups start

Firewall A CUPS server normally uses TCP port 631 for an IPP connection and port 80 for

an LPRLPD connection If the CUPS server system accepts print jobs from remote

systems and is running a firewall you need to open one or both of these ports

PDF printer You can set up a virtual PDF printer by installing the cups-pdf package or you can

set up this printer manually

Configuring a Printer Using system-config-printerMain menu System Administration Printing (RHEL) or give the command

systemconfig-printer from a terminal emulator or Run Application window (ALT-F2)

Default printer Highlight a printer in the Printing window and select menubar Printer Set as

Default from the window menu to specify the highlighted printer as the default printer If just

one printer appears in the Printing window it is the default printer you do not have to set it up

as such

Server Settings Select menubar Server Settings from the Printing window to display the Server

Settings window The top two check boxes in this window specify whether systemconfig-

printer displays printers that are shared by other systems and whether the local system

publishes printers it shares You control whether a specific printer is shared from the Policies

selection of the Printer Properties window (next)

Configuration Selections

Select menubar Printer Properties to display the Printer Properties window

This section describes the six selections found in the frame at the left side of the

Printer Properties window These selections allow you to configure the printer you

chose in the Printing window

The text boxes labeled Description and Location hold information that can help users identify

The printer The system does not use this information change it as you like For example

it might be helpful to put the physical location of the printer such as Samrsquos Office in the text

box labeled Location The text boxes labeled Device URI and Make and Model specify the

location of the printer on the computer or network and type of the printer

Policies The Policies selection enables you to control printer state sharing and banners

Under the word State are check boxes labeled Enabled Accepting jobs and Shared

Putting a tick in the check box labeled Shared shares the printer with other systems if the

local system publishes shared printers (see ldquoServer Settingsrdquo) The Policies tab also controls

whether the printer prints banners before and after jobs and what CUPS does when the printer

reports an error

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Prerequisites

Make sure the following packages are installed (most are installed with the base FedoraRHEL system)

bull cups

bull system-config-printer (optional)

bull cups-pdf (optional Fedora only sets up a virtual PDF printer)

The CUPS Web interface requires an X server and a Web browser Although it is a poor solution

a text Web browser such as elinks (elinks package) will work too

cups init script Run chkconfig to cause CUPS (the cupsd daemon) to start when the system goes into

multiuser mode

chkconfig cups on

Start CUPS

service cups start

Firewall A CUPS server normally uses TCP port 631 for an IPP connection and port 80 for

an LPRLPD connection If the CUPS server system accepts print jobs from remote

systems and is running a firewall you need to open one or both of these ports

PDF printer You can set up a virtual PDF printer by installing the cups-pdf package or you can

set up this printer manually

Configuring a Printer Using system-config-printerMain menu System Administration Printing (RHEL) or give the command

systemconfig-printer from a terminal emulator or Run Application window (ALT-F2)

Default printer Highlight a printer in the Printing window and select menubar Printer Set as

Default from the window menu to specify the highlighted printer as the default printer If just

one printer appears in the Printing window it is the default printer you do not have to set it up

as such

Server Settings Select menubar Server Settings from the Printing window to display the Server

Settings window The top two check boxes in this window specify whether systemconfig-

printer displays printers that are shared by other systems and whether the local system

publishes printers it shares You control whether a specific printer is shared from the Policies

selection of the Printer Properties window (next)

Configuration Selections

Select menubar Printer Properties to display the Printer Properties window

This section describes the six selections found in the frame at the left side of the

Printer Properties window These selections allow you to configure the printer you

chose in the Printing window

The text boxes labeled Description and Location hold information that can help users identify

The printer The system does not use this information change it as you like For example

it might be helpful to put the physical location of the printer such as Samrsquos Office in the text

box labeled Location The text boxes labeled Device URI and Make and Model specify the

location of the printer on the computer or network and type of the printer

Policies The Policies selection enables you to control printer state sharing and banners

Under the word State are check boxes labeled Enabled Accepting jobs and Shared

Putting a tick in the check box labeled Shared shares the printer with other systems if the

local system publishes shared printers (see ldquoServer Settingsrdquo) The Policies tab also controls

whether the printer prints banners before and after jobs and what CUPS does when the printer

reports an error

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

The CUPS Web interface requires an X server and a Web browser Although it is a poor solution

a text Web browser such as elinks (elinks package) will work too

cups init script Run chkconfig to cause CUPS (the cupsd daemon) to start when the system goes into

multiuser mode

chkconfig cups on

Start CUPS

service cups start

Firewall A CUPS server normally uses TCP port 631 for an IPP connection and port 80 for

an LPRLPD connection If the CUPS server system accepts print jobs from remote

systems and is running a firewall you need to open one or both of these ports

PDF printer You can set up a virtual PDF printer by installing the cups-pdf package or you can

set up this printer manually

Configuring a Printer Using system-config-printerMain menu System Administration Printing (RHEL) or give the command

systemconfig-printer from a terminal emulator or Run Application window (ALT-F2)

Default printer Highlight a printer in the Printing window and select menubar Printer Set as

Default from the window menu to specify the highlighted printer as the default printer If just

one printer appears in the Printing window it is the default printer you do not have to set it up

as such

Server Settings Select menubar Server Settings from the Printing window to display the Server

Settings window The top two check boxes in this window specify whether systemconfig-

printer displays printers that are shared by other systems and whether the local system

publishes printers it shares You control whether a specific printer is shared from the Policies

selection of the Printer Properties window (next)

Configuration Selections

Select menubar Printer Properties to display the Printer Properties window

This section describes the six selections found in the frame at the left side of the

Printer Properties window These selections allow you to configure the printer you

chose in the Printing window

The text boxes labeled Description and Location hold information that can help users identify

The printer The system does not use this information change it as you like For example

it might be helpful to put the physical location of the printer such as Samrsquos Office in the text

box labeled Location The text boxes labeled Device URI and Make and Model specify the

location of the printer on the computer or network and type of the printer

Policies The Policies selection enables you to control printer state sharing and banners

Under the word State are check boxes labeled Enabled Accepting jobs and Shared

Putting a tick in the check box labeled Shared shares the printer with other systems if the

local system publishes shared printers (see ldquoServer Settingsrdquo) The Policies tab also controls

whether the printer prints banners before and after jobs and what CUPS does when the printer

reports an error

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Firewall A CUPS server normally uses TCP port 631 for an IPP connection and port 80 for

an LPRLPD connection If the CUPS server system accepts print jobs from remote

systems and is running a firewall you need to open one or both of these ports

PDF printer You can set up a virtual PDF printer by installing the cups-pdf package or you can

set up this printer manually

Configuring a Printer Using system-config-printerMain menu System Administration Printing (RHEL) or give the command

systemconfig-printer from a terminal emulator or Run Application window (ALT-F2)

Default printer Highlight a printer in the Printing window and select menubar Printer Set as

Default from the window menu to specify the highlighted printer as the default printer If just

one printer appears in the Printing window it is the default printer you do not have to set it up

as such

Server Settings Select menubar Server Settings from the Printing window to display the Server

Settings window The top two check boxes in this window specify whether systemconfig-

printer displays printers that are shared by other systems and whether the local system

publishes printers it shares You control whether a specific printer is shared from the Policies

selection of the Printer Properties window (next)

Configuration Selections

Select menubar Printer Properties to display the Printer Properties window

This section describes the six selections found in the frame at the left side of the

Printer Properties window These selections allow you to configure the printer you

chose in the Printing window

The text boxes labeled Description and Location hold information that can help users identify

The printer The system does not use this information change it as you like For example

it might be helpful to put the physical location of the printer such as Samrsquos Office in the text

box labeled Location The text boxes labeled Device URI and Make and Model specify the

location of the printer on the computer or network and type of the printer

Policies The Policies selection enables you to control printer state sharing and banners

Under the word State are check boxes labeled Enabled Accepting jobs and Shared

Putting a tick in the check box labeled Shared shares the printer with other systems if the

local system publishes shared printers (see ldquoServer Settingsrdquo) The Policies tab also controls

whether the printer prints banners before and after jobs and what CUPS does when the printer

reports an error

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Configuring a Printer Using system-config-printerMain menu System Administration Printing (RHEL) or give the command

systemconfig-printer from a terminal emulator or Run Application window (ALT-F2)

Default printer Highlight a printer in the Printing window and select menubar Printer Set as

Default from the window menu to specify the highlighted printer as the default printer If just

one printer appears in the Printing window it is the default printer you do not have to set it up

as such

Server Settings Select menubar Server Settings from the Printing window to display the Server

Settings window The top two check boxes in this window specify whether systemconfig-

printer displays printers that are shared by other systems and whether the local system

publishes printers it shares You control whether a specific printer is shared from the Policies

selection of the Printer Properties window (next)

Configuration Selections

Select menubar Printer Properties to display the Printer Properties window

This section describes the six selections found in the frame at the left side of the

Printer Properties window These selections allow you to configure the printer you

chose in the Printing window

The text boxes labeled Description and Location hold information that can help users identify

The printer The system does not use this information change it as you like For example

it might be helpful to put the physical location of the printer such as Samrsquos Office in the text

box labeled Location The text boxes labeled Device URI and Make and Model specify the

location of the printer on the computer or network and type of the printer

Policies The Policies selection enables you to control printer state sharing and banners

Under the word State are check boxes labeled Enabled Accepting jobs and Shared

Putting a tick in the check box labeled Shared shares the printer with other systems if the

local system publishes shared printers (see ldquoServer Settingsrdquo) The Policies tab also controls

whether the printer prints banners before and after jobs and what CUPS does when the printer

reports an error

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Default printer Highlight a printer in the Printing window and select menubar Printer Set as

Default from the window menu to specify the highlighted printer as the default printer If just

one printer appears in the Printing window it is the default printer you do not have to set it up

as such

Server Settings Select menubar Server Settings from the Printing window to display the Server

Settings window The top two check boxes in this window specify whether systemconfig-

printer displays printers that are shared by other systems and whether the local system

publishes printers it shares You control whether a specific printer is shared from the Policies

selection of the Printer Properties window (next)

Configuration Selections

Select menubar Printer Properties to display the Printer Properties window

This section describes the six selections found in the frame at the left side of the

Printer Properties window These selections allow you to configure the printer you

chose in the Printing window

The text boxes labeled Description and Location hold information that can help users identify

The printer The system does not use this information change it as you like For example

it might be helpful to put the physical location of the printer such as Samrsquos Office in the text

box labeled Location The text boxes labeled Device URI and Make and Model specify the

location of the printer on the computer or network and type of the printer

Policies The Policies selection enables you to control printer state sharing and banners

Under the word State are check boxes labeled Enabled Accepting jobs and Shared

Putting a tick in the check box labeled Shared shares the printer with other systems if the

local system publishes shared printers (see ldquoServer Settingsrdquo) The Policies tab also controls

whether the printer prints banners before and after jobs and what CUPS does when the printer

reports an error

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Configuration Selections

Select menubar Printer Properties to display the Printer Properties window

This section describes the six selections found in the frame at the left side of the

Printer Properties window These selections allow you to configure the printer you

chose in the Printing window

The text boxes labeled Description and Location hold information that can help users identify

The printer The system does not use this information change it as you like For example

it might be helpful to put the physical location of the printer such as Samrsquos Office in the text

box labeled Location The text boxes labeled Device URI and Make and Model specify the

location of the printer on the computer or network and type of the printer

Policies The Policies selection enables you to control printer state sharing and banners

Under the word State are check boxes labeled Enabled Accepting jobs and Shared

Putting a tick in the check box labeled Shared shares the printer with other systems if the

local system publishes shared printers (see ldquoServer Settingsrdquo) The Policies tab also controls

whether the printer prints banners before and after jobs and what CUPS does when the printer

reports an error

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

The text boxes labeled Description and Location hold information that can help users identify

The printer The system does not use this information change it as you like For example

it might be helpful to put the physical location of the printer such as Samrsquos Office in the text

box labeled Location The text boxes labeled Device URI and Make and Model specify the

location of the printer on the computer or network and type of the printer

Policies The Policies selection enables you to control printer state sharing and banners

Under the word State are check boxes labeled Enabled Accepting jobs and Shared

Putting a tick in the check box labeled Shared shares the printer with other systems if the

local system publishes shared printers (see ldquoServer Settingsrdquo) The Policies tab also controls

whether the printer prints banners before and after jobs and what CUPS does when the printer

reports an error

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Policies The Policies selection enables you to control printer state sharing and banners

Under the word State are check boxes labeled Enabled Accepting jobs and Shared

Putting a tick in the check box labeled Shared shares the printer with other systems if the

local system publishes shared printers (see ldquoServer Settingsrdquo) The Policies tab also controls

whether the printer prints banners before and after jobs and what CUPS does when the printer

reports an error

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Access Control The Access Control selection enables you to set the policy for printer access By

default anyone can use the printer To restrict access you can create a blacklist of

users who are not allowed to use it Alternatively you can prohibit anyone from

using the printer and then create a whitelist of users who are allowed to use it

Printer Options The Printer Options selection controls image quality paper size and source

(tray) and other generic printer options

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Setting Up a Local or Remote PrinterThis section describes how to set up three types of printers for local use a printer

attached to the local system a printer hosted by another system and a printer that

resides on the local network (a network printer)

The system-config-printer utility looks for printers attached to the system or the local network It

then asks if you want to adjust the firewall so the local system can detect printers on the

network (Fedora only) and displays the New Printer window

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Specifying a URI The easiest way to locate a remote printer that is not listed is to select Find

Network Printer under Network Printer in the frame labeled Select Device Then enter in the

text box labeled Host the name of the host the printer is attached to (the server) or

for a network printer the name of the printer You can specify an IP address instead of

a hostname

Click Find If it finds a printer system-config-printer displays the name of

the printer under Network Printer and fills in information about the printer on the

right side of the window

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

If the printer is not listed select Other (for a local printer) or one of the selections

under Network Printer (for a remote printer) from the frame labeled Select Device

system-config-printer displays appropriate text boxes on the right side of the window

All selections under Network Printer require you to specify a Host and a Queue or

Port number These values locate the printer on the network

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

To specify the queue for an LPDLPR printer use the form printer-name for an IPP

printer use the form printersprinter-name for an HP JetDirect-compatible network

printer specify the printer-name and Port number Replace printer-name with the

name of the printer on the server

If you are unsure of the name of a printer give the command lpstat ndashp on the server to

display the names of all printers on that system After selecting or specifying a printer

click the button labeled Verify (if present) to make sure the printer is accessible and

then click Forward The system-config-printer utility searches for the printer driver

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

At this point the system-config-printer utility closes the New Printer window asks if

you want to print a test page and displays the new printer in the Printing window

If you have more than one print queue and want to set up the new print queue to be

the default highlight the printer and select menubar Printer Set As Default

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Sharing CUPS PrintersDisplay the Server Settings window by selecting menubar Server Settings and put a tick in the

Check box labeled Publish shared printers connected to this system Using this technique

allows you to chose whether to share each printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

IPP facilitates remote printing The Listen directive in the CUPS configuration file

etccupscupsdconf specifies which IP address and port or which domain socket path

CUPS binds to and accepts requests on The Listen directive has the following format

Listen IPport | path

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

where IP is the IP address that CUPS accepts connections on port is the port number

that CUPS listens on for connections on IP and path is the pathname of the domain

socket CUPS uses to communicate with printers CUPS typically uses port 631 and by

default binds to localhost Thus it accepts connections from the loopback service of

the local system only CUPS uses varruncupscupssock a local domain socket to

communicate with local printers It can also use a Port directive to specify the port

number it listens to for HTTP requests

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

$ grep -i listen etccupscupsdconf

Only listen for connections from the local machine

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

To allow other systems to connect to the CUPS server on the local system you must

instruct CUPS to bind to an IP address that the other systems can reach First

remove or comment out the Listen localhost631 directive leave the other Listen

directive in place

Listen localhost631

Listen varruncupscupssock

In place of the commented-out Listen directive use an access control list to permit

only selected machines to connect to local printers An access control list is

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

defined inside a ltLocationgt container (see page 934 for the Apache equivalent)

The following example allows only the system at IP address 1921681101 and

the local system to print to the specified printer

ltLocation gt

Order AllowDeny

Allow access from the local system and 1921681101

Allow from localhost

Allow from 1921681101

Uncomment the following line to permit access from all systems

Allow LOCAL

ltLocationgt

The LOCAL macro is internal to CUPS and specifies the local system This macro

accepts communication from any address that resolves to the local system Specify

Allow LOCAL to share the printer with all systems

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Print from WindowsPrint Using CUPS

Modern versions of Windows (2000 and later) support IPP and as a result can communicate

directly with CUPS To use this feature you must have CUPS configured on

the Linux print server to allow remote IPP printing you also need to create a new

printer on the Windows system that points to the IP address of the Linux print server

First set up the etccupscupsdconf file to allow network printing from a client as

explained in ldquoSharing CUPS Printersrdquo

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Windows XP From Windows XP go to Control Panel1048644Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer

Click Next in the introductory window and select A network printer or a printer

attached to another computer Click Next Select Connect to a printer on the Internet

or on a home or office network Continue following the next paragraph at

ldquoEnter URLrdquo

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Windows 7 From Windows 7 go to Control Panel1048644Devices and Printers and click Add a

printer Click Add a network wireless or Bluetooth printer Assuming Windows

does not find the printer click The printer that I want isnrsquot listed Click the radio

button labeled Select a shared printer by name

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Enter URL Enter the following information in the text box (under Windows XP it is labeled URL)

httphostname631printersprinter-name

where hostname is the name or IP address of the Linux CUPS server system and

printer-name is the name of the printer on that system For example for the printer

named dog88 on the system named dog at IP address 192168012 you could enter

httpdog631printersdog88 or http192168012631printersdog88 If you

use a hostname it must be defined in the hosts file on the Windows machine Click

Next Windows requests that you specify the manufacturer and model of printer or

provide a driver for the printer If you supply a printer driver use the Windows version

of the driver

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Print Using SambaSamba must be set up so that the Windows user who will be printing is mapped to a

Linux user (including mapping the Windows guest user to the Linux user nobody)

Windows supports printer sharing via SMB which allows a printer to be shared

transparently between Windows systems using the same mechanism as file sharing

Samba allows Windows users to use printers connected to Linux systems just as

they would use any other shared printers

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

When you use rpm to install Samba it creates a directory named varspoolsamba

that is owned by the root account and that anyone can read from and write to

$ ls -ld varspoolsamba

drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 02-03 1523 varspoolsamba

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Under Fedora put the following two lines in the [global] section of the etcsambasmbconf

file Under RHEL these lines are set up by default you need only change the printcap name as

shown

[global]

printing = cups

printcap name = cups

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

The printerrsquos share is listed in the [printers] section in smbconf In the following

example the path is the path Samba uses as a spool directory and is not a normal

share path The settings allow anyone including guest to use the printer The

[printers] section in the default smbconf file has the following entries which are

appropriate for most setups

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

[printers]

comment = All Printers

path = varspoolsamba

browseable = no

guest ok = no

writable = no

printable = yes

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

Printing to WindowsCUPS views a printer on a Windows machine exactly the same way it views any

other printer The only difference is the URI you need to specify when connecting it

To configure a printer connected to a Windows machine click the Administration

tab in the CUPS Web interface and select Add Printer just as you would for a local

printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer

When you are asked to select the device choose Windows Printer via SAMBA

Enter the URI of the printer in the following format

smbwindows_systemprinter_name

where windows_system can be an IP address or a hostname After you have added

the printer you can use it as you would any other printer