using cups to serve a home network

[Dan Miller]

Hi, I'm trying to setup a home printer server.  The configuration I'm going for is to have one dedicated server PC with a printer attached sitting on the network so that people on the network can add the printer and print to it at will.

I installed Ubuntu server 8.04 on the designated server machine and selected the print server software option (along with other options) during installation.  Now I'm 99% sure that cups is what was installed on the machine first off 'cause thats what the documentation I found online strongly implied, and because the cupsd daemon is running on the machine.

But I haven't been able to find out how to find if the printer is attached to the computer (lp0 is found in /dev/ is I'm guessing it is), and I haven't been able to figure out how to add that printer to any client computer on the network (the computer I'm using to try this is a laptop running Ubuntu desktop 8.04 hardy).  I tried working with cupsd.config but nothing I'm doing turns out to work.

So if you could tell what I'm doing wrong, or at least, where I could find answers please let me know.

Thanks