Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:26:16 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> 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

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