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And don’t forget to do good and to share what you have with others, because sacrifices like these are very pleasing to God.

Hebrews 13:16 (ERV)

Right-click the icon of the printer. From the drop-down menu, choose Properties

Properties


Select the Policies tab and check Enabled, Accepting Jobs and Shared

Enabled, Accepting Jobs and Shared are checked


Right-click the printer again and select Shared from the drop down menu

Shared


Once shared, other computers on the network running Linux (or Unix, or Mac OS X) should be able to see the printer and print to it.

Shared printers show on the network and are available to print to

Samba allows printer (and file) sharing between Linux (or Unix, or Mac OS X) and Windows

samba


Install Samba
Open a Terminal [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[T] and type:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install samba

sudo apt install samba


Edit smb.conf with a text editor
sudo mousepad /etc/samba/smb.conf

sudo mousepad /etc/samba/smb.conf


Ensure the [printers] section says browseable = yes and guest ok = yes

browseable = yes guest ok = yes


Restart Samaba
sudo systemctl restart smbd.service nmbd.service

sudo systemctl restart smbd.service nmbd.service


Once the printer driver is installed on Windows, the shared printer should be available to print to from Windows

Epson printer showing in Windows

MORE INFORMATION See Set Up CUPS Print Server on LinuxBabe, Set up CUPS printer server on Ubuntu 22.04 on Linux Hint, Samba Print Server instructions on Ubuntu Server Docs, How to Install and Use Samba on Ubuntu 20.04 on itsLinuxfoss, How to Setup Samba Server in Ubuntu 20.04 on ByteXD and Samba on the Ubuntu Community Help Wiki

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