[gentoo-user] Printing to CUPS from another linux computer

[Vincent van de Camp]

Hi,

I've set up an HP DeskJet printer on one of my Gentoo computers without a problem using cups. After that, I've been trying for over a month now to print to that printer from other linux machines (all Gentoo), but with no luck.

I can find little to no documentation about how to do this, all I can find is printing to samba hosts, or set up a samba server to allow this printer to be shared to Windows computers. But I have no Windows, so I don't see why I'd take that route. I have googled everywhere, but I can't find documentation about how to print from cups to cups using linux anywhere.

I have tried installing the remote printer on various other machines, using ipp, http, socket, lpd, what-have-you. But when I'm done all I get to see is that the host is unavailable and that printing will be tried again in 30 seconds. LogLevel is set to debug, but there's not a mention of a request to print from other machines that I can find. Sometimes, when I still have some printjobs in queue and modify the printer, I get the message that a certain % of the printjob is finished, but it never seems to reach the printer and the status changes back soon to Host unavailable.

I take it that it's some setting that needs to be modified on the computer running cupsd. I have 'Allow from All', 'Listen port 631' and 'Listen <ip-address>' set in cupsd.conf, but still no luck. Does anyone have more ideas?

TIA:)
Vincent
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