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Quick and easy printer sharing in GNOME

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JW
Jack Wallen
Nov 16, 2010

“Printer sharing was once a big challenge for Linux. It almost
always involved manually configuring Samba to share out your
printers. That is not so now. With the latest releases of the GNOME
desktop, printer sharing is as easy as it is in any other operating
system. So longer will you need to open up that /etc/smb.conf file
and spend hours or days trying to figure out the challenging
configuration. Now it’s point and click.

“Let’s take a look at just how quickly and easy you can share
out your printers in GNOME.”


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