Ubuntu print server compatible with Windows (Samba)
If
your Ubuntu print server shall be able to work also with Windows
clients, you must first make sure that the SAMBA package is installed
(e.g. using Synaptic package manager). Then, do a little configuration
change to SAMBA. In brief, you must uncomment the following lines in /etc/samba/smb.conf - open terminal and run:
gksudo gedit /etc/samba/smb.conf
In the [printers] section:
browseable = yes guest ok = yes
When done, restart Samba:
sudo service smbd restart sudo service nmbd restart
There is a dedicated page in the official documentation which gives more details.
Also, one would want to allow the following ports through a firewall (ufw for example) via:
sudo ufw allow 139/tcp sudo ufw allow 445/tcp sudo ufw allow 137/udp sudo ufw allow 138/udp
