Re: shared printer?

[Peter Oudenhoven <peter.oudenhoven@gmail.com>]

Doc,

You can share it through Samba on your RHEL server, as long as you
make sure Samba listens on the nic with the public IP, that way it
won't matter that it's on the local network.

Regards,

Peter.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
<dsavage@peaknet.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 06:48 -0500, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>> I have an HP LaserJet 2430dtn set up as a shared printer under RHEL6.
>> It's a JetDirect device with a local non-routable IP address. My RHEL6
>> server has two Ethernet ports, one with public IP address and one with a
>> local non-routable IP address to access the printer.
>>
>> While this printer works perfectly with the RHEL6 server, and from any
>> desktop and laptop using the local non-routable address space. But I
>> haven't figured out how to access that printer from a Windows laptop
>> with a local address. Does anyone know how to access a Linux shared
>> network printer with Windows?
>
> Oops... Make that "from a Windows laptop with a *public* address". In
> that situation the Windows laptop cannot see the printer directly since
> they're on different networks. It wants the RHEL6 server to make that
> network bridge in the sharing process. Trouble is, Windows 7 is not
> "seeing" my shared printer.
>
> --Doc
>
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