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Introduction
Linux has the ability to share a printer to all the computers on the network. This tutorial covers configuring the print server machine for this. To configure the printer settings on the client Linux machines see Configuring a Remote Printer Using Red Hat’s PrintTool. To share a Linux printer to client Windows machines, see Sharing Linux Printer to a Windows Machine through Samba.

Configuring The Print Server

1. Configure the printer to print on the print server first. See
2. Configuring a Local Printer Using Red Hat’s PrintTool for instructions.
3. As root, create a file called /etc/hosts.lpd with the hostname or IP address of each machine you want to grant print priviledges to on a separate line.
4. As root, restart the lpd daemon with the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart.
5. Test connection by printing from a client machine.

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