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. -- #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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). 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 > > -- > Stupidity is like a fractal; universal and infinitely repetitive. > -- [email protected] mailing list
