Re: [gentoo-user] Network printing

[BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com>]

I think you are very close to getting it to work but just need to get LP configured correctly. It sounds like you have both systems configured as the "Server", which is not correct.

For your workstation, follow the "Client" directions below:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml#doc_chap5


Which is basically two steps:

1) Modify '/etc/cups/client.conf' and tell it where the server is.
2) Configure LP:
    - use lpstat to see the available printers
    - use lpoptions to set the default printer

The beauty of CUPS is that any new printer you install on the server automatically becomes available to all clients. On Windows, you need additional drivers; but for other CUPS clients, it takes care of it for you internally (to my understanding).

I believe you only need HPLIP on the server side, not the client side. But having it there shouldn't do any harm.

HTH,

Ben


----- Original Message ----
From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 10:39:48 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] Network printing

Hello,

As it's the New Year, perhaps it's time to resume banging my head on this 
wall again.

I have a server with two printers connected, set up using the cups Web page 
and operating properly. Now I want to send print jobs to them from my 
workstation, which is on the same network, and with the same version of 
cups: 1.3.9-r1. One of the printers is an HP Deskjet D4260, so I also have 
hplip version 2.8.6b installed on both machines. I can connect either 
printer to either machine and print locally without any problems.

However, I cannot get anything to print over the network. If, on the 
workstation, I declare the network laser printer and connect to it, all 
appears to work until I send a print job to it; the job sits in the lp 
queue locally, and when I next look at the status of the printer it 
says "Destination printer does not exist!"

If I try to set up the Deskjet as a remote printer in the local cups server, 
I get "Filter "foomatic-rip" for printer "HP_Deskjet_D4260" not available: 
No such file or directory".

I don't know what to try next. Anyone any idea here?

-- 
Rgds
Peter