Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer

["Sarpy Sam" <sarpy.sam@gmail.com>]

On 9/18/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    Sorry. This has got to be me just not seeing the right way about
> this. What do I have to do on my Gentoo AMD64 machine with a working
> CUPS printer to share it with other Gentoo desktop machines here at
> home?
>
>    I have a working CUPS printer on my machine. I want to print to it
> from my wife and son's machines. I've been trying to figure out how to
> set that up but cannot get the right configuration. It seems that the
> Gentoo Printing Guide is somewhat silent on this.
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml
>
>    On the machine with the printer I've done what I think the guide
> has asked for, modified for my network IP addresses:
>
> <Location />
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> Allow From 192.168.1.*
> </Location>
>
> Port 631
> (make sure the next two lines are commented out)
> #Listen 127.0.0.1:631
> #Listen localhost:631

Maybe port 631 will work here, I have it set to Listen *.631

>    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.

On the client mahines you want to comment out the listen localhost:631
line in cupsd.conf.  Then you want to make a file in /etc/cups called
client.conf.  Insert in it

ServerName  *****

Add whatever the name or ip address of the server machine is.
Somewhere I read that you have to use the server name as defined in
/etc/host, you might have to add it to the file if you haven't done
this all ready.  I did it that way and restrated cups and it worked.

lpstat -a
Epson accepting requests since Mon Sep 18 12:19:08 2006
hp_photosmart_7700_series_USB_1 accepting requests since Wed Jul 26
20:25:52 2006

The lpstat command will show if you are seeing the printer or not.

I just figured this out last night.  Hope it works for you.


> However when I try to print to it I get messages in CUPS like:
>
> "Destination printer does not exist!"
>
>    I'm sure it's just me not understanding the right way to input the
> printer's address.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
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