Network Printing

Novell^® Linux Small Business Suite 9 (NLSBS9) software lets your users share printers on the network through Common UNIX* Printing Services (CUPS), an open source print server solution. Although lprng and lpdfilter packages will continue to be supported, CUPS offers these advantages:

• Setting individual parameters on the user level
• Optimum support for PostScript* printers
• Browsing in the network
• Web front-end (on the user level and for administration)

This chapter guides you through the steps to set up a basic CUPS print server to service the print jobs on the network and provides instructions for printing from Linux and Windows workstations. After completing these steps, your network users can send their print jobs to server-attached printers.

For more information on printing in a Linux environment, see "Printer Operation" in the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server Administration and Installation guide .