There are two protocols you can use to print on the CS printers from a Linux systems, lpd and smb.
Either will work if you are on the CS network but from outside CS (such as using the IU Wireless network)
you will have to use smb. For this reason, smb printing is preferred.
SMB Printing
Each Linux distribution has its own preferred way of adding printers and this FAQ
will not attempt to address each possible variant. However, using any of the common
distributions the only thing you are probably going to need is the format of the
printer destination. For all of the CS printers, when using SMB printing, the
destination is of the form:
smb://username:password@server/printername
You will find the proper values for username, password, and server
on the
Samba Printer Account Page.
You will need to replace printername with the name of the CS printer (such as ps6), which you
can find in the
printers section of the
hardware database. For example, you could add printer psburrow using lpadmin as follows:
lpadmin -p psburrow -E -v smb://username:password@samba2.cs.indiana.edu/psburrow
where you replace username and password with the values from the
Samba Printer Account Page.
LPD printing
If you are connected to the CS network, then you can use LPD printing. The
destination is of the form:
lpd://server/printername
You can find the names of the available printers in the
printers section of the
hardware database. You can find the server information for each printer by clicking on the printer
in this database listing. For example, you could add printer psburrow using lpadmin as follows:
lpadmin -p psburrow -E -v lpd://lpspool.cs.indiana.edu/psburrow
