Printing Problem

[Art Alexion]

On Thursday 02 October 2008 11:25:06 am Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Pastor JW wrote:
> > On Wednesday 01 October 2008 7:45:27 pm tom bell wrote:
> > > Just wondering here if you have used your browser to address CUPS via:
> > > http://localhost:631
> >
> > Yes, I have but the laptop can not find the computer with the printer
> > which is on the same router as the laptop.  Neither can the other two
> > wired desktops for that matter.
>
> Something is seriously wrong then.
>
> I have a labrat machine here that has a scanner connected to it.  I just
> now wanted to copy a piece of paper but found out that I hadn't defined a
> printer for that machine.
>
> Went into 'system settings',  selected 'add printer',  told it I wanted to
> add a 'network printer'  using TCP,  gave it the address,  and port (9100) 
> and told it what kind of printer it is (HP4000TN)  and off it went. 
> Printed the CUPS test page just fine.
>
> It shouldn't be harder than that.
>
> Now if you are trying to print from one linux machine to another, and that
> other has a local printer, then you need to add a 'remote CUPS server'
> printer (IPP/HTTP)  and use 'anonymous' as the user ID type and give it the
> host IP address and use port 631.
>
> But you may have to make some settings on the machine with the printer
> also. I just tried to have my labrat machine talk to a different linux
> machine by doing the above remote CUPS server setup and it says "unable to
> connect to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on port 631"
>
> Looking at the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on my server machine I see the setting
> to:
>
> # Only listen for connections from the local machine.
> Listen localhost:631
> Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
>
>
> And there may be other things that need to change.   I did all this 7 years
> ago and it worked fine.  Don't need to do it anymore.

Make sure you have the package smbclient installed.  I have no idea why this 
is not installed with the samba package or by default, but it screws a lot of 
people up.  There is also an smbprint package, but I think that is included 
in smbclient.
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