using cups to serve a home network

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A parallel port printer, I did this just now to see:

1. dug up parallel cable in garage, plugged it into computer and printer.

2. http://localhost:631 (hop on to the CUPS web admin)

3. Click the 'Administration' tab

4. Press the 'Find New Printers' button

5. My printer was there, so I set it up and printed a test page

HTH!
p.s. if you been inside cupsd.conf with no clue maybe good idea to
click 'Administration' tab, press 'Edit Configuration File',
and then from the bottom of the next page press the "Use Default
Configuration File" if still having probs! : )


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