Print sharing in Fedora 15 to Fedora 15

[acastley]

My friend and I both are running fedora 15 (GNOME desktop) and I want to be able to print to his printer. I have looked on google and everything tells me how to share with windows and linux. I am new to Linux but so far everything has been very easy to do and I like the way it works. This is the first problem I havent been able to solve quickly on google. I also want to know if the solution will show his printer on my computer, but shared, much like on windows?
Thank you for your help. I have looked on the forums and can't find a post that matches my problem.

[jj3666]

The printer model and driver support in linux is important if you can post. The setup for IPP, CUPS network sharing, or using something like Avahi/mDNS to advertise the printer are all viable options.

[atreyu]

I would try to use samba to share the printer. Make sure samba is installed:

rpm -qv samba-common samba

If not:

yum install samba-common samba

Then, edit the config file:

vi /etc/samba/smb.conf

and look for the printer stuff near the bottom. You'll also need to configure workgroup under the [global] section.

Then start/restart the samba server:

service smb restart

You'll need to add a samba user to each side - use the name of an existing Linux system user, e.g.:

smbpasswd -a joeblow

Then view local shares:

smbclient -U joeblow -L localhost

Once both sides are set up, you can view each others shares by replacing localhost with the remote ip address. It is also a good idea to make the ip address resolve to the proper Windows hostname in /etc/hosts. In fact, you may *need* to do that, to make samba happy, I have that prob sometimes.