[SOLVED] network printing

[AV1611]

I hate printers

 

I have an HP that works great with linux.

 

I have two public IP's.

 

Computer A has the HP on it.  It prints fine

 

I went to computer B and told it to look for a tcp printer on the IP for computer A and if found it. 

 

I printed from computer B and it "seemed" to work, but the printer on computer A never printed it.

 

Um, What am I missing???

[neylitalo]

Are you using CUPS? If not, you should be. CUPS has always worked for me right off the bat, with a little trial-and-error with the print drivers. It's just a matter of enabling printer sharing on the computer it's connected to, and enabling the use of shared printers on the other computers.

[AV1611]

Are you using CUPS? If not, you should be. CUPS has always worked for me right off the bat, with a little trial-and-error with the print drivers. It's just a matter of enabling printer sharing on the computer it's connected to, and enabling the use of shared printers on the other computers.

 

Yea, but I hoped to do it the other way... I guess I'll do CUPS instead.

 

Thanks for always being there Ney...

[AV1611]

Hmmm... Doesn't work.  Do I have to change the conf file to allow non-local and if so, how?

 

[neylitalo]

Are you using CUPS? If not, you should be. CUPS has always worked for me right off the bat, with a little trial-and-error with the print drivers. It's just a matter of enabling printer sharing on the computer it's connected to, and enabling the use of shared printers on the other computers.

 

Yea, but I hoped to do it the other way... I guess I'll do CUPS instead.

 

Thanks for always being there Ney...

 

While I don't share your hesitation to use CUPS, I can accept it - but I think I can safely assure you that within time, you'll be completely comfortable with CUPS. The internet administration tool (http://hostname:631) is awesome, and once you get the printer sharing set up, it's just a matter of checking a box in the CUPS admin on the client-side to get it to pick up the printers.

 

I'll give you the links to my CUPS configuration files - There's nothing host-specific at all, so you should be able to just copy and paste.

 

Client configuration

"Server" configuration

 

One thing that may be of importance: For CUPS to automatically see printers attached to other machines, you need TCP port 631 open on the clients, and probably on the server. I would test the server-side for you, but I seem to have just locked myself out of it with some rather stupid iptables rules. Time to hook up a monitor and a keyboard, I guess.

 

And please, just call me Neal - shortened versions of my username look even sillier to me than my username.

[AV1611]

Your config was the same as mine.

 

I had to make this slight change, now it prints across the internet. I understand the security implications, it's just for my convenience.

 

<Location />

  # Allow shared printing...

  Order allow,deny

  #Allow @LOCAL

  Allow from All

</Location>

 

Thanks again, Neal.

 

BTW, now that Lampgeekz is gone (I was a mod and didn't even know it was shut down ) I started a new NOOB forum for Linux stuff.  It's evolving, but I'll make you a mod no sweat.

 

http://tranquilpenguin.com

 

Thanks again!