On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:26:16 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- [email protected] mailing list
