Printer sharing

chombee chombee at nerdshack.com
Mon Jul 16 12:40:05 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 09:33 -0300, Joel Goguen wrote:
> 0.  Open a web browser.
> 1.  Go to http://localhost:631/
> 2.  Click 'Administration'
> 3.  On the right, check the box that says to share all published printers
> 4.  On the other Ubuntu box, add the new IPP printer with this URI:
> ipp://<ip_of_box>/printers/<name_of_printer>
> 
> You can get <name_of_printer> by clicking the printer name under the
> Printers tab, and the last part in the address bar is
> <name_of_printer>.  <ip_of_box> is the box where you did all this
> stuff.

Thanks, I'll try that.

Since I'm entering the IP address of the computer with the printer
attached as part of the IPP, is it going to be a problem that this IP
address changes every time that computer connects?

How do I add the printer on the second machine, just through the usual
System->Administration->Printing?






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