Printing Problem

[Michael Hirsch]

I just went through this at home.

By default, kubuntu sets up your cups server so that it only listens
for connections from itself.  If you want to let other computers use
the cups server you need to configure the cups server to listen to the
outside world.  There may be a GUI way to do this, but I don't know
it, so to follow these instructions you'll need to be able to edit a
file as root.

Looking at the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on your server machine you'll see
somewhere in it:

# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock

You need to change that second line to
Listen *:631

Restart the cups server (sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart, I think).
It will now be listening for outside connections.  Now all your other
computers should see the printer.

On the other computers just say you have a "generic postscript"
printer.  The server will take charge of converting the postscript to
whatever format your printer really wants.

Hope that helps,

Michael

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Pastor JW
<pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> 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.
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