[juneau-lug] CUPS and XP

Not sure how many of you will find this useful, but here goes.

I was trying to print from my wife's laptop with XP to a printer on my Linux 
box without success. I have Samba setup correctly, I think, but I still 
couldn't browse the printers. I went out to Google to look for answers and 
found out that I could print from XP through CUPS. All I had to do was edit 
the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and /etc/cups/client.conf files to point to my 
system (akbowbender) as the cups server and change the "allow" portion of the 
cupsd.conf so I could access the CUPS server from other machines. Then I 
setup a new printer in XP that points to 
http://akbowbender:631/printers/tp2_640, which is an Epson 640 on 
akbowbender. Pretty painless setup, I think.

Chuck Hakari

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