From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GPdV3-0007AD-10 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:10:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8JB9exs028770; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:09:40 GMT Received: from dbmail-mx1.orcon.net.nz (loadbalancer1.orcon.net.nz [219.88.242.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8JB4xDe026264 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:05:01 GMT Received-SPF: none Received: from rout.dyndns.org (60-234-144-216.bitstream.orcon.net.nz [60.234.144.216]) by dbmail-mx1.orcon.net.nz (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with SMTP id k8JB4sYS028233 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:04:55 +1200 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:05:22 +1200 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer Message-Id: <20060919230522.ec334227.nick@rout.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <200609190926.40115.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0609181648g1b730181h1d4f6bf435a27bf4@mail.gmail.com> <200609190926.40115.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.5 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on dbmail-mx1.orcon.net.nz X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: e06797cb-8f94-47ac-bf45-86bf28493191 X-Archives-Hash: 68cc94e9c45e440722f3950fb912ce89 On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:26:16 +0100 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 19 September 2006 00:48, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > At this point I believe I'm supposed to set up IPP printing on the > > remote machines but everything I've tried there results in messages > > about the printer not being found, not responding, not existing, etc. > > I'm telling CUPS that it's an IPP printer and trying addresses like: > > > > ipp://lightning/ipp > > ipp://lightning/ipp/port1 > > etc. > > I had this problem some time back and could not get it to work on two counts. > Name resolution would not work (so you may want to change lightning with the > IP address of your server); and the syntax given in the gui example was > wrong. So, after some good advice from this list I changed mine to: > > http://192.168.0.3:631/printers/Compaq-HP > > where, > 192.168.0.3:631 is the IP address and port where the server is listening at; > Compaq-HP is the name I have given to the server; > printers is . . . err, . . . not sure, I assume it is the list of printers set > up on the server. > > Anyway, also don't forget to allow connections from your client(s) on your > server and your server's firewall. > > If after setting it as suggested you still can't find your way through, please > post back and I'll look deeper into it. I have never got ipp:// to work, but http://server:631/printers/printername usually works for me. Incidentally here is a howto I wrote with printing from windows in mind, but it deals with permissions and the url to use: *nick searches for the url: Bugger, its on the server http://clug.org.nz, which is down right now. Go there tomorrow and search for wincups -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list