[SATLUG] Printing on home network

[Brad]

  This is my first post so please be gentle. How would you hook a 
printer directly into a router. I know it is obvious, but I am not 
seeing it. I just got started on Linux and these posts have so far been 
invaluable.

Chuck wrote:

>Funny coincidence...  I've just worked on someone's network with a Barricade
>router on it.  I have the manual in PDF format and will send it directly to
>you.
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>There isn't a queue on the router.  It just shares the printer out via MS
>Networking just like you would with the printer hooked to a Winders
>computer.  Set up the printer and sharing in the router's configuration
>using the web interface built into the Barricade.  Then, set the computers
>to use that printer.
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>The manual for the Barricade has detailed instructions for configuring a
>Win95/98/ME/2000 machine to access the printer and a separate set of
>detailed instructions for configuring WinNT.  BUT! (you'll love this), when
>it comes to Unix -- the instructions are: "Follow the traditional
>configuration procedure on Unix platforms to set up the Barricade print
>server. The printer name is "lpt1."".  How's that for nice, detailed
>instructions???
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>Anyway, what you have to do is set your Linux system to use Samba to access
>this printer.  Last time I did this was a couple years ago and I don't
>remember specific instructions.  But the Samba and Printing HOW-TO's should
>have instructions for setting up Samba to access a Windows shared printer.
>Just follow that and point the print services towards the router.
>
>Let us know how it goes buddy.
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>Chuck
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: satlug-admin at satlug.org [mailto:satlug-admin at satlug.org]On Behalf
>Of Karl.Kutac at siriuscom.com
>Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:45 PM
>To: satlug at satlug.org
>Subject: [SATLUG] Printing on home network
>
>
>Hi. More newbie admin questions. I have a desktop RH7.3 box attached to an
>SMC Barricade router (and the router is attached to the RoadRunner cable
>modem). My printer, an NEC 950C (inkjet) is attached to the router, too. A
>common enough arrangement, I'm sure. Question: how do I configure
>printconf, or printtool? It would be a remote printer, yes? Yet when I put
>in the IP address of the router, it doesn't print. Is anyone familiar with
>the SMC Barricade vis a vis Linux? Is there a specific virtual server port
>that needs to be set up? What confuses me more than anything is that there
>can't be any queue on a router, so surely print jobs need to be sent to my
>desktop machine, so that lpd can handle it; how will the lpd know where to
>send the print jobs?
>(btw, can't directly attach printer via lpt0 because two other computers
>live on the network, a w98 box and at times a laptop running either RH or
>win2k.)
>-- Karl Kutac
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