Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 9/18/06, Sarpy Sam <sarpy.sam@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So far this looks OK. However, if I go into the CUPS manager on the
> > client and try to print a test page it's telling me the printer is not
> > available.
> >
> > Any ideas? I guess you can print a test page from within the CUPS
> > manager on the client?
>
> I never tried to print a test page from the client CUPS manager, but I
> could print from the webbrowser which is what I was going for.  I
> personally can't even get to the CUPS manager in the client machine
> since the Listen localhost:631 has been commented out so there is no
> manager to get to.
>
> Your seeing the printer though.  That's a start.

Actually it turned out to be enough. Since the printer was seen in the
CUPS manager on the client machine it seems apps on that machine can
print across the network. I didn't have to make any more changes to
get it to work.

The confusion I had was that when I access the CUPS page in Firefox on
the client machine I thought I was managing something on that machine.
It seems it's really just showing what's on the network (i this case)
and a proxy for what is on the server.

I'll look through the comments in the emails that follow this one to
see if I can make any improvements but at least it's working.

Thanks!

- Mark
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