{"id":3514,"date":"2014-06-22T13:48:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T13:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3514"},"modified":"2014-06-22T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T13:48:18","slug":"how-to-share-a-printer-in-ubuntu-14-04-trusty-lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/how-to-share-a-printer-in-ubuntu-14-04-trusty-lts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Share A Printer in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/virtual-printer-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2665\" alt=\"share printer in ubuntu 14.04\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/virtual-printer-logo.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/virtual-printer-logo.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/virtual-printer-logo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>This quick tutorial is going to show you how to share a wired printer in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty over local network.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To get started, open <b>Printers<\/b> utility from Unity Dash search results or System Settings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/open-printers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3515\" alt=\"Printers setting in Ubuntu 14.04\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/open-printers.png\" width=\"560\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/open-printers.png 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/open-printers-300x124.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once it opens, go to menu Server -&gt; Settings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/share-printer-ubuntu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3516\" alt=\"Share Printer in Ubuntu 14.04\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/share-printer-ubuntu.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/share-printer-ubuntu.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/share-printer-ubuntu-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check the box where it says &#8220;Publish shared printers connected to this system&#8221; to enable network sharing of connected printers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/publish-shared-printer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3517\" alt=\"share printer ubuntu 14.04\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/publish-shared-printer.png\" width=\"394\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/publish-shared-printer.png 394w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/publish-shared-printer-300x244.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, right-click on a printer in the list and go to its Properties window. Under <b>Policies<\/b> tab, make sure all three boxes (Enabled, Accepting jobs, and Shared) are checked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/share-ubuntu-printer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3518\" alt=\"share printer in ubuntu 14.04\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/share-ubuntu-printer.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/share-ubuntu-printer.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/share-ubuntu-printer-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now you&#8217;re able to connect to this printer from Ubuntu\/Windows client using Internet Printing Protocol (ipp:\/\/ip.address.or.name\/printers\/Printername).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quick tutorial is going to show you how to share a wired printer in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty over local network. To get started, open Printers utility from Unity Dash search results or System Settings. Once it opens, go to menu Server -&gt; Settings&#8230; Check the box where it says &#8220;Publish shared printers connected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1106,855],"class_list":["post-3514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-share-a-printer","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}