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Setting Up the Printer

After setting up the disk shares, it's time to turn my attention to the printer. Continuing with the example, I have already set up the printer correctly on the Linux server. When I can successfully print from the Linux box to the network printer using the lpr command, the next step is to define a printer share:

[global]
     printing = bsd
[printer1]
     comment = printer located outside office
     printable = yes
     writeable = no

This definition causes Samba to search the /etc/printcap file for a printer named printer1 and use the standard print command. Note that I also need to add the additional printing = bsd entry to the [global] section of the smb.conf file. There are other styles of UNIX printing systems. Samba works with these as well as you will see in Hour 8, "Printers."

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