Re: [gentoo-user] Is cups crap?

[Joseph]

Shouldn't be that difficult.  For example to print from Desktop2 to
printer on Desktop1 go to your Print Manager on Desktop2  and add
printer:
Printer Type: IPP Printer
URI:
ipp://IP_address_of_desktop1:631/printers/Your_printer_name_on_desktop1

That should be it I think.

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#Joseph

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 21:58 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to configure a small network (two desktops and a notebook) to
> share printers.
>
> Desktop 1 runs Gentoo and has a B/W Laserjet on LPT1
> Desktop 2 runs OpenSuSE 10.0 and has a color Laserjet on LPT1
> The Notebook is a Thinkpad runing OpenSuSE 10.0 nad has no printer attached.
>
> Both printers are intalled on their computers and work fine... localy
>
> On the Gentoo computer I have managed to intall the color Laserjet in Cups
> (connecting though localhost:631). The interresting thing is that I can print
> a test page from the KDE printer manager on either printers, but the very
> same test fails from localhost:631 with the message "you don't have access to
> the resources on this server" (?!). Anyway, from this computer everything
> works, which is the most improtant to me.
>
> Now to the two SuSE computers. Desktop 2 shares it's printer but can't see the
> B/W laserjet on Desktop 1. Neither can the Notebook - but it can print on the
> color printer. I can print the test page on the color printer, but I can't
> set a root password for cups (unable to open passwd file: Permission denied ;
> and I _was_ root!). On the notebook lppasswd works. On Gentoo I get the
> message: "lppasswd: failed to backup old password file: No such file or
> directory"
>
> The B/W Laserjet does show up, but it's not usable, and on the other computers
> I even have ghost printers (Laserjet_Color@Desktop1). On the Notebookand
> Desktop 2 the Laserjet 1300 is seen as  "Printer State: idle, accepting jobs"
> but there is no url and trying to print a test page either gives "you don't
> have access to the resources on this server" (Desktop 2) or "Test page sent"
> but nothing is ever printed.
>
> >From the KDE printer manager Notebook can print on the color Printer attached
> to Desktop 2 but does not have access to laserjet on Desktop 1, while Desktop
> 2 (from localhost:631) is forbidden to use Laserjet 1300 but can print on
> it's own local printer......
>
> Now, appart from the fact that three recent installations of cups work in
> three different ways (so I must confess I'm quite lost), and the fact that
> all three cupsd.conf files are mostly the same, How can I make the Gentoo
> computer share its printer ??
>
> Thierry
>
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>

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