Sharing a Home Printer?

Carlwill · 2010-10-05 00:04:28

I recently acquired a Epson CX8400 & would like to connect it to my Arch Linux server in my office via USB. Both my wife and I use our laptops on the same network as the Arch Linux server and we use it as a file server (NFS & CIFS) so I really would like us to both be able to print to the Epson from both our laptops without having to directly connect it to our machines via USB.

Does anyone have any recommendations on how I can achieve what I am looking to do?

Thanks!

capnmoney · 2010-10-05 00:19:30

Have you tried CUPS?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cups

zenlord · 2010-10-05 09:24:00

+1 on cups.

It is that easy as to configure your printer only serverside and than seeing it pop up on all clients that are using the same network. It worked some time on our OSX-macbook, but that stopped working recently and I haven't gotten the time to look into it yet. It should also work on windows clients.

Carlwill · 2010-10-05 13:43:46

I haven't tried CUPS because I wasn't sure if that was overkill for home & one single printer but I will give it a shot. Hopefully it's not crazy hard to configure.

pyther · 2010-10-05 13:53:03

Cups is pretty easy and straightforward and shouldn't use much memory. If you want something really light try p910nd. It is what openwrt uses. Note, you need the usblp module.

http://p910nd.sourceforge.net/

I like using the raw queue driver on my cups server and then using the appropriate drivers on the client. That way my windows clients can use the official print driver. (personal preference)

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