CUPS Print Control

[Tommy Trussell]

On 11/23/05, Brant Fitzsimmons <brant at bfcomputerconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> Is there any way to configure print sharing using a GUI in Ubuntu?  The
> printer GUI allows you to set up a printer, but I couldn't find anything
> on sharing.


I normally run xfce on my system (it's old and slow) but in my experience
Ubuntu's GNOME utilities for managing the printers don't expose many of the
features of CUPS. KDE, however, has an excellent printer configuration GUI
that lets you set up CUPS (including sharing options*) which in my opinion
is far superior to even CUPS's own configuration interfaces. So if you have
space on your hard drive, install the Kubuntu packages. It's easy to switch
back and forth as needed between KDE, GNOME, xfce and other environments.

*You have to be a little careful defining your terms -- it's simple to share
printers between CUPS systems, including just about any modern linux system
and later versions of Mac OS X. But if you're talking about sharing the
printers with Windows users, that's Samba's domain, and might be a bit more
complicated on the linux side. (I can't advise you as I don't use Windows or
Samba.)
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