Thread: Canon LBP 2900 network printer installation

I have recently installed Ubuntu OS 9.10 version in one of my machines. I need to make it a print server in my network, where most of the client systems are using Operating systems like Windows XP as well as Windows 7.

In Ubuntu I need to set up my Canon LBP 2900 laser jet printer along with also Samba, so that it will be easy to get to the Windows Systems.

Please give me step by step directions so that I can set up those lacking several errors. I am new to Ubuntu, so I get it a little bit complicated.

Thanks

If you installed samba the printer is by now shared. Just set off onto the windows systems as well as click on the start -> run

After that type

\\ubuntu_hostname_here

If you are uncertain of the hostname, in a terminal on Ubuntu you can run:

Hostname

And you will be told

When you type this into Windows, you will make out the printer, and just right click on it as well as choose the connect option, you will after that be asked for the Windows driver for the printer.

You can currently print to the printer.