[ale] remote printing

[Brian Pitts]

Scott Castaline wrote:
> Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> My wife is now using my laptop at home, while she recovers. On my desktop I 
>> have a Panasonic Color Stylus 880. I'm not up on remote printing, and the KDE 
>> HELP doesn't do it. I've looked at the CUPS network admin, and it didn't shed 
>> much light on it.
>> running openSUSE 10.2
>>> lpstat -t
>> scheduler is running
>> system default destination: styluscolor880
>> device for styluscolor880: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20COLOR%20880
>> styluscolor880 accepting requests since Thu 08 Feb 2007 09:04:06 PM EST
>> printer styluscolor880 is idle.  enabled since Thu 08 Feb 2007 09:04:06 PM EST
>>  
>> hints? how-tos? docs??                                                 
>>
> Paul, I'm assuming that you want to be able to print from your laptop 
> running M$ through your desktop running Linux? If so I do believe you 
> need to have SAMBA running and then setup printer share through SAMBA.

SAMBA isn't strictly necessary because Windows XP can use IPP directly.

http://www.suselinuxsupport.de/wikka.php?wakka=HowToPrintWindowsOrLinuxToLinux
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:CUPS_in_a_Nutshell

-Brian