[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Printer sharing

[Terry]

On 6/8/05, Tom <mickeyd at compuclaim.com> wrote:
> Terry wrote:
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> >On 6/8/05, Tom <mickeyd at compuclaim.com> wrote:
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> >>Terry wrote:
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> >>>On 6/8/05, Tom McDonald <mickeyd at compuclaim.com> wrote:
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> >>>>Fred wrote:
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> >>>>>Ummm, Dutch, I don't have any windows computers in my lan, so samba
> >>>>>ain't gonna do much for me. ALL of my boxes are SuSE, some 9.1 and
> >>>>>the printerless one is SuSE 8.2.
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> >>>>I've had good luck with cups by editing /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and setting
> >>>>the ServerName to the name of the server with the printer.
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> >>>>Tom
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> >>>[You set ServerName to name of server with the pinter] on client or host?
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> >>On the client host I set the servername to the name of the host with
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> >wait-a-minute... which is it?  (client or host)?
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> >>printer, (even though I'm running cupsd on the client.)  I know this
> >>isn't exactly the "correct way", but it works and is a quick fix.
> >>Without setting it this way, some of the apps would print and some
> >>wouldn't, but I've never investigated why.
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> >>Tom
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> Sorry for the confustion.  I run cupsd on all my machines, but on each
> one I set the servername to the host with the printer. There are three
> related issues with printers, hosts, queues, and printers.  Cups handles
> all these very elegantly.
> 
> Tom
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Ok, that works:
On client PCs, set ServerName in  cups.conf
i.e.
ServerName [host-name-or-IP#-of-printer's-host]

Then configure cups to look for netowrk printer:
Device URI: lpd://ipaddress-or-hostname:515/queue-name-here

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