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you want to share that printer with other people in your home, school, or office. Basically, that
means configuring the printer as a print server.
The printers configured on your Linux system can be shared in different ways with other computers
on your network. Not only can your computer act as a Linux print server (by configuring
CUPS); it can look to client computers such as an SMB print server. After a local printer is attached
to your Linux system and your computer is connected to your local network, you can use the procedures
in this section to share the printer with client computers using a Linux (UNIX) or SMB
interface.
Configuring a Shared CUPS Printer
Making the local printer added to your Linux computer available to other computers on your
network is fairly easy. If a TCP/IP network connection exists between the computers sharing the
printer, you simply grant permission to all hosts, individual hosts, or users from remote hosts to
access your computer??™s printing service.
To manually configure a printer entry in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file to accept print jobs
from all other computers, add an Allow from All line. The following example from a
cupsd.conf entry earlier in this chapter demonstrates what the new entry would look like:
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.
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