Have a printer you want to share between multiple computers? Looking for another way to use a Raspberry Pi in your smarthome? Stay tuned and I will show you how to do this ⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️ 0:00 - Intro 0:49 - What we will be covering 1:06 - Required items 1:49 - Creating a SD card for RPI 3:53 - Enabling SSH 4:32 - Updating RPI OS 6:02 - Installing CUPS 13:15 - Adding printer to CUPS 15:57 - Configuring workstation to use CUPS based printer

Update RPI

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo reboot

Install CUPS

sudo apt-get install cups

Add user pi to lpadmin group

sudo usermod -a -G lpadmin pi

Make a backup of cups confi file

Cd /etc/cups sudo cp cupsd.conf cupsd.conf.back

Start cups service before making any changes to make sure it would start at this point

sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart sudo /etc/init.d/cups status - should show as started sudo /etc/init.d/cups stop

Configure CUPS

sudo nano /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

listen on all interfaces

#Listen localhost:631

Restrict access to the server...

Location /   Order allow,deny   Allow @Local /Location

Restrict access to the admin pages...

Location /admin   Order allow,deny   Allow @Local /Location

Restrict access to configuration files...

Location /admin/conf   AuthType Default   Require user @SYSTEM   Order allow,deny   Allow @Local /Location

You can allow all domains to access the interface

ServerAlias *

or provide a specific name.

ServerAlias one.example.com two.example.com

Allow CUPS to be available everywhere on the network

sudo cupsctl --remote-any ** Note if error restart, use the restart cmd below and the retry this cmd

Restart CUPS to make these changes active

sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

Check for CUPS admin page to respond

http://x.x.x.x:631 (replace x.x.x.x with ip address of CUPS RPI) If printer is HP and not showing under “Local Printers”, may need to install hplip from this URL https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing

If the printer only prints X number of jobs and then quits, try the following-

Replace PRINTERNAME with the name used in step 7. Eg: m1136

lpadmin -p PRINTERNAME -o usb-no-reattach-default=true

Restart your Pi

sudo reboot

================================================ *** Show Notes, Links and Resources **** Here are the items mentioned in this video -

CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 2GB Basic Starter Kit with Fan (2GB RAM) https://amzn.to/35QBB8I

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