It seems that sharing printers connected to a Linux computer so they can be seen on a Windows 7 computer on the same network isn’t as easy as it should be.

Even if you go through the process of setting on the printer on the Linux computer and setting it to “shared”, Windows 7 computers will still fail to see it.

This is particularly true if you’re trying to combine CUPS with Samba so that you can see the printer in Windows Explorer.

It looks like the problem may have to More >