Sharing a printer to Windows XP clients with Samba and Cups
Setting a printer in Debian Sarge from scratch and make it available for Windows XP clients on a LAN can be difficult, but using CUPS and samba it should be fairly straightforward if you have a supported printer. Here we will demonstrate how to do this.
Printing for the first time in a machine with a fresh install of Debian Sarge is not as easy as one might think. I came across many documents and web pages in the Internet that explain in a general way what I was trying to do, but none of them alone solved my problems and sometimes I didn't find what I was looking for in any of them. So, I wrote this guide to remember the solution to my problem and to share it with other people. This guide details all the problems I went trough -and the solutions – to make my printer available in my home's LAN. The LAN is formed by five PCs: Three desktops and two laptops. The machine running Debian Sarge is my own computer and the others, including laptops, run Windows XP. The printer is an old Epson Stylus Color 777.
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