CUPS Print Control

[Brant Fitzsimmons]

Tommy Trussell wrote:

> On 11/23/05, *Brant Fitzsimmons* <brant at bfcomputerconsulting.com
> <mailto: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.


I was aware of the KDE utilities, but wanted to know specifically about
Ubuntu/Gnome utilities.

>
> *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.)
>

I'll be more careful in the future.

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Brant Fitzsimmons
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