network printing with cups

[penguin.ch]

Re: network printing with cups

Sister_Clamp,

what you are trying to do All my suggestions were based on the assumption that you are working with one machine hosting the printer as well as a second one trying to access the printer ... but the more I read from you, the more I get the impression that I'm totally wrong

Maybe I should describe my network, just to straighten things out: the workstation ("C3PO") hosts the printer ("Lexmark") as well as two virtual machines (both "FAKE") while a laptop ("R2D2") get's attached to the network if required.

On C3PO, the Lexmark is installed (via CUPS & KPrint) as "local", "to be viewed and shared by others" - that's what I call a "print server" in this regard. On R2D2 as well as on FAKE, the printer is installed (the same way) as "remote", using the "remote server" as contact for print jobs - therefore I call all three of them "print clients".

Hopefully, from now on we're singing the same song

Birdy

[sister_clamp]

Re: network printing with cups

We have 3 machines on our home LAN:
* diziet-sma (prev. known as my-desktop), running Kubuntu 6.06
* miles (my laptop), running Kubuntu 6.06
* slippery-jim (another laptop), running SuSE 10.1

The LaserJet1300 is local to diziet-sma. I am trying to print over the network from miles, Kubuntu to Kubuntu. In addition to this thread, I have also read that:

...[I]t seems as if the CUPS configurations in Dapper are not set by default to allow sharing of printers on a linux network. Do not ask me why, I am only a messenger! Here is an easy and quick solution to correct this:
Go to the  /etc/cups/cups.d/ports.conf there should be the following lines
Listen 631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock

It is likely that the line Listen localhost : 631 is present so change it to Listen 631 and save

Go to /etc/cups/cups.d/browse.conf there should be the following line
Browsing on

I have also read that I will need to download NFS in order to share across Linux as Dapper does not automatically come with this. I have *also* read that I need to set up Sharing and to ensure that I can enable Samba and/or NFS for the /printers directory.

At this point, this is all getting a bit much. I shall continue to investigate and figure this out myself. In the interim, my trusty USB stick can ferry files from one room to another.

S_C

[penguin.ch]

Re: network printing with cups

Sister_Clamp,

due to the fact that the whole CUPS system is still under development, or, to put in other words, "work in progress", problems as well as solutions are also developing rapidely, so to speak ... therefore, please give the approach to change the ports a try - maybe for your version of CUPS this works better than what I suggested.

However, what you've read about NFS & SMB (aka Samba) is absolutely and definitely irrelevant to what we are discussing here - unless you want to share files and folders as well as printers, for what (from my point of view) Samba will be most suitable. [1]

But now back to business as I learned from your postings, you are able to print (via CUPS) locally on diziet-sma. If this holds true, the next step would be to configure CUPS (on this machine) to "publish" the locally attached printer to your network ("browsing on", you remember ...).

Having done this, on miles as well as slippery-jim the next step would be to connect to the CUPS "server" residing on diziet-sma ("connect to remote server", "scan for publicly available printers", as discussed ...).

That's all. Period. - From my experience, things are not really complicated, as long as you take one step after the other, complete one task prior to starting the next one, do not forget about necessary steps nor mix up their order.

HTH
Birdy

[1] Further readings: What is NFS? , What is Samba?

[michellembrodeur]

Re: network printing with cups

I can see the printer on my other system. but I cannot get it to print. why does it see it and not print to it. any ideas anyone.