[xubuntu-users] Sharing printers

[Joshua Gardner]

That URL is a local URL and won't work over the network. Cups supports the
Internet Printing Protocol very nicely.

If you change the portion in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf where it says:

<Location />
Order Allow,Deny
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>

So that it allows from all, or allows from your local network, you can then
put the URL ipp://yourhost:631/printers/yourprinter into a Linux computer,
and something similar into Windows XP computers too, and it will now be a
shared printer.

If you need to share with Samba (Windows Networking) then I've tried that
but not actually gotten it to work. That's just me though. I'm sure someone
here has.

-Josh


On 1/31/07, Skip Evans <skip at bigskypenguin.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Josh & all,
>
> On my machine it calls the local Device URI this:
>
> hp:/usb/HP_Laserjet_1022?serial=FL10340
>
> From this can you tell how I would share this
> printer with other machines on the network?
>
> Skip
>
> Joshua Gardner wrote:
> > The URL for the printer depends on how you connect to it. smb:// is
> > printers
> > shared by Windows servers and is usually in the form
> smb://server/printer.
> > If the computer is on a UNIX server running CUPS, you can just use
> > ipp://servername:631/printers/printername to connect to it.
> >
> > If I remember correctly there is a wizard in the printer config program
> > that
> > will generate a URL from the data you input.
> >
> > -Josh
> >
> > On 1/31/07, Skip Evans <skip at bigskypenguin.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> I got my printer installed easy as pie on my local
> >> Xu machine, but another one on the network
> >> couldn't see it, even though it is marked shared
> >> under Settings -> Printing.
> >>
> >> This is what I did on the second machine (they are
> >> both on a simple LAN here):
> >>
> >> Settings -> Printing -> New Printer
> >>
> >> I then gave it a name in the three fields:
> >> HP-1022
> >>
> >> Then I hit the forward button where it asks me to
> >> Select Connection and has a field for Device URI,
> >> but I'm not sure what do to here.
> >>
> >> Can I provide the Device URI of the printer on my
> >> own machine here so the remote machine I am
> >> attempting to configure find it?
> >>
> >> Not sure how to get this URI.
> >>
> >> Any help, as always, greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Printer is a HP Laserjet 1022.
> >>
> >>
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