[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Printer sharing

[Stephen Davidson]

HI Fred.

Stupid question here, but did you open the Cups port in SuSE's firewall?
/etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall if you need to.

And for the printerless computer, I used YAST to create a Remote Printer
Queue.

Regards,
Steve

Fred wrote:

>On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> wrote:
>Fred wrote:
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>>I am running suse 9.1 and need to figure out how to share my
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>printer
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>>on the local lan. Maybe the answer is just too simple for me to
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>see,
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>>but as yet I haven't figured it out. None of the howtos get into
>>printer sharing. CUPS documentation skips over that part. It can't
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>be
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>>that hard, I keep telling myself, but it still doesn't work. Anyone
>>have the answer?
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>CUPS will not create a SMB (aka Windows like) printer share.  You'll 
>need Samba.
>Is that what you are wanting?
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>Yes and no. A couple (or more) years ago I set up my daughter's
>family lan with Mandrake 9 and KDE and there wasn't a problem
>printing from one puter to another. Best I can remember the setup was
>from the gui and it was fairly easy and no, I wasn't using Samba.
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>Now I'm running SuSE 9.1 / KDE 3.2 and I cannot figure out how to get
>one puter to print to another's printer. It should be simple, but
>it's not. I have spent quite some time on this, even RTFM, but when
>the one printerless box sends the print job to the one w/printer,
>nothing prints. No, I haven't run sniffit to see if the job actually
>got sent. Yes, I opened port 631 on the firewall and I am running IPP
>protocol. The cups target is ipp:/main/printers/<print queue name>,
>have also tried several permutations of this. Anyway, nothing so far.
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>Fred
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