Network Printing

Scott Billings

Jason Kaczor

Makes printing very easy

Steps to Share Your Printer

Problems

Firewalls can block and prevent you from sharing a printer over your network

Windows XP and Windows Vista sometimes cannot share printers very easily

Ethereal

Network Printing

Setting up a network printer to print from a virtual machine

Network Printing with Linux

www.linux-printing.org

CUPS (Common Unix Printing System)

Allows computer to act as a print server, Spooler and scheduler, filter system and backend system

1997 Uses IPP Modified from LPD www.cups.org

SAMBA Re-Implementation

of SMB/CIFS Networking Protocol

1992 Uses TCP/IP

installed on a host Test have shown

2.5x faster than windows 2003

www.samba.org

For Linux Sharing example video visit this site:

http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=LinuxCadieuxSharingNetworkPrinter&fromSeriesID=19