Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS remote printing drives me crazy

[Helmut Jarausch]

Many thanks to all who helped me.

For cupsd.conf on the server machine
It turned out that I needed

Listen localhost:631

in addition to

Port 631
Listen /run/cups/cups.sock

Furthermore, on the client machine I had typo

DeviceURI ipp:://MyServer/printers/duploc_usb

(note the double colon)

Unfortunately, CUPS doesn't seem to check the syntax of DeviceURI
or it doesn't report this.
One simply gets "printer could not be located" when one tries to use it.

I didn't want to use enter the SERVER name into /etc/cups/client.conf  
on the client machine,
since I want "double spooling', i.e. the client machine should accept  
the print job even if the SERVER
machine is down.

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Yes, I still have an old printer which only has a USB-connection and an  
Ethernet connection.
Unfortunately, the Ethernet connection broke down recently.
I don't think that WiFi is the best solution since - at least me - have  
only 60 Mbits/seccon on the WiFi
but 1 Gbits/second on the wired Ethernet - and some files to be printed  
are quite large.

Thanks again,
Helmut.



On 09/12/2018 02:50:36 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to install a very simple configuration but fail (CUPS is my
> most hated software)
>
> I have two machines on a local network (i.e., I don't need any fancy
> security mechanisms)
>
> On one machine - called SERVER - I have a USB printer which works
> just fine with CUPS.
> I've tried to make it "shared". This printer has the name USB_printer.
>
> On the other machine, which has no physical printer itself, I just
> want to add a remote printer which
> uses  USB_printer on the SERVER.
>
> If I try to configure this remote printer, my first problem is its
> name (URL)
> I've tried  ipp://SERVER:631/printers/USB_printer  but when I try to
> print to it,
> I always get "printer cannot be located"
>
> Would anybody be so kind to share (the relevant parts) of his/her
> cupsd.conf on the server as well as
> on the client?
>