You’ll be glad this part is so easy.
- Use the same printtool as always, and select an existing printer.
- Pull down the Action menu, and select Sharing.
- Click the Queue tab.
- Check the box beside “This queue is available to other computers.”
- “All Hosts” will appear in the Allowed box.
- If you want to restrict hosts, click Remove, then Add.
- Now you can choose to allow anyone on your subnet to print by selecting the local network interface on your server,
- or you can specify a CIDR range of IP addresses,
- or you can specify a single IP address.
You may also need to open your firewall to allow UDP and TCP traffic on port 513.
Older applications may need you to enable LPD printing. Command:
chkconfig cups-lpd on
then
service xinetd restart
And be sure you’ve specified your server’s and clients’ names correctly, and that they can be resolved.
For Samba printers, you’ll configure smb.conf (discussed elsewhere).