Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer
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. -- Regards, Mick pgprYrTruKdec.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer
On 9/18/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/18/06, Sarpy Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Maybe port 631 will work here, I have it set to Listen *.631 Changed it to Listen *:631 and restarted CUPS on the server. SNIP On the client mahines you want to comment out the listen localhost:631 line in cupsd.conf. Then you want to make a file in /etc/cups called client.conf. Insert in it ServerName * Ah! OK, that makes sense. I changed it appropriately, restarted CUPS on the client machine and now I get this far: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lpq HP is ready no entries [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lpstat -a HP accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ So far this looks OK. However, if I go into the CUPS manager on the client and try to print a test page it's telling me the printer is not available. Any ideas? I guess you can print a test page from within the CUPS manager on the client? Thanks a lot for this much. It's helpful. I messed around some more with mine now and found out a few more things. I also added the following to the cupsd.conf on the print server machine. # Show shared printers on the local network. Browsing On BrowseOrder allow,deny BrowseAllow 192.168.2.* BrowseAllow @LOCAL # Restrict access to the server... Location / Order allow,deny Allow localhost Allow From 192.168.2.* /Location The 192.168.2.* is my local subnet I was trying to allow printing from. With a restart of the cups server on the machine with the printer that client machine saw the peinter no problem. I also now discovered that when I use the CUPS manager on the client machine itr just forwards me to the CUPS manager on the Server machine. Since in cupsd.conf I haven't allowed a client machine access to change anything I can't change any of the parameters of the CUPS manager but I am able to print a test page. I also finished setting up KDE and everything is now working fine on the client with the setup I have described. Sorry about forgetting to tell you about the other two lines I changed in cupsd.conf. Hope these changes help you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer
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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer
On 9/18/06, Sarpy Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far this looks OK. However, if I go into the CUPS manager on the client and try to print a test page it's telling me the printer is not available. Any ideas? I guess you can print a test page from within the CUPS manager on the client? I never tried to print a test page from the client CUPS manager, but I could print from the webbrowser which is what I was going for. I personally can't even get to the CUPS manager in the client machine since the Listen localhost:631 has been commented out so there is no manager to get to. Your seeing the printer though. That's a start. Actually it turned out to be enough. Since the printer was seen in the CUPS manager on the client machine it seems apps on that machine can print across the network. I didn't have to make any more changes to get it to work. The confusion I had was that when I access the CUPS page in Firefox on the client machine I thought I was managing something on that machine. It seems it's really just showing what's on the network (i this case) and a proxy for what is on the server. I'll look through the comments in the emails that follow this one to see if I can make any improvements but at least it's working. Thanks! - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer
Hi, Sorry. This has got to be me just not seeing the right way about this. What do I have to do on my Gentoo AMD64 machine with a working CUPS printer to share it with other Gentoo desktop machines here at home? I have a working CUPS printer on my machine. I want to print to it from my wife and son's machines. I've been trying to figure out how to set that up but cannot get the right configuration. It seems that the Gentoo Printing Guide is somewhat silent on this. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml On the machine with the printer I've done what I think the guide has asked for, modified for my network IP addresses: Location / Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From 192.168.1.* /Location Port 631 (make sure the next two lines are commented out) #Listen 127.0.0.1:631 #Listen localhost:631 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. However when I try to print to it I get messages in CUPS like: Destination printer does not exist! I'm sure it's just me not understanding the right way to input the printer's address. Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer
On 9/18/06, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry. This has got to be me just not seeing the right way about this. What do I have to do on my Gentoo AMD64 machine with a working CUPS printer to share it with other Gentoo desktop machines here at home? I have a working CUPS printer on my machine. I want to print to it from my wife and son's machines. I've been trying to figure out how to set that up but cannot get the right configuration. It seems that the Gentoo Printing Guide is somewhat silent on this. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/printing-howto.xml On the machine with the printer I've done what I think the guide has asked for, modified for my network IP addresses: Location / Order Deny,Allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 Allow From 192.168.1.* /Location Port 631 (make sure the next two lines are commented out) #Listen 127.0.0.1:631 #Listen localhost:631 Maybe port 631 will work here, I have it set to Listen *.631 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. On the client mahines you want to comment out the listen localhost:631 line in cupsd.conf. Then you want to make a file in /etc/cups called client.conf. Insert in it ServerName * Add whatever the name or ip address of the server machine is. Somewhere I read that you have to use the server name as defined in /etc/host, you might have to add it to the file if you haven't done this all ready. I did it that way and restrated cups and it worked. lpstat -a Epson accepting requests since Mon Sep 18 12:19:08 2006 hp_photosmart_7700_series_USB_1 accepting requests since Wed Jul 26 20:25:52 2006 The lpstat command will show if you are seeing the printer or not. I just figured this out last night. Hope it works for you. However when I try to print to it I get messages in CUPS like: Destination printer does not exist! I'm sure it's just me not understanding the right way to input the printer's address. Thanks in advance, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer
On 9/18/06, Sarpy Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Maybe port 631 will work here, I have it set to Listen *.631 Changed it to Listen *:631 and restarted CUPS on the server. SNIP On the client mahines you want to comment out the listen localhost:631 line in cupsd.conf. Then you want to make a file in /etc/cups called client.conf. Insert in it ServerName * Ah! OK, that makes sense. I changed it appropriately, restarted CUPS on the client machine and now I get this far: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lpq HP is ready no entries [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ lpstat -a HP accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ So far this looks OK. However, if I go into the CUPS manager on the client and try to print a test page it's telling me the printer is not available. Any ideas? I guess you can print a test page from within the CUPS manager on the client? Thanks a lot for this much. It's helpful. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer
So far this looks OK. However, if I go into the CUPS manager on the client and try to print a test page it's telling me the printer is not available. Any ideas? I guess you can print a test page from within the CUPS manager on the client? I never tried to print a test page from the client CUPS manager, but I could print from the webbrowser which is what I was going for. I personally can't even get to the CUPS manager in the client machine since the Listen localhost:631 has been commented out so there is no manager to get to. Your seeing the printer though. That's a start. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
