cups and my network printer

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 01:52:40PM -0400, Paul King wrote:
> I am still struggling in my on-going battle to get my printer to work.
> >From what I have been able to make out from the Debian (sarge) docs,
> CUPS appears to be the only server to understand a networked printer.
> Feel free to correct me if I am wrong. I would gladly use the BSD-style
> lprng program (which I understand better), but I am unsure about how to
> enter a URI for my printer there.
> 
> The printer is standalone on my home network. It is wireless. I am able
> to telnet to it, stick my nose in here and there, and print a test page
> from the telnet session, which gives me all kinds of stats on the
> printer and its settings. I figure if I can do that, printing documents
> can't be too far-fetched an ambition with this printer. 
> 
> This is a printer in the Brother MFC Inkjet/Scanner/Fax/Photocopier
> vein. It lists my network router as the primary DNS, IP gateway, and
> DHCP server. Under windows it works fine.
> 
> So, I configured CUPS for a networked printer. I su'ed to root, and did
> a cupsdconf. I redirected the error messages to a file, and here is what
> I got - a long string of error messages and warnings. Most of the
> warnings seemed to apply to various default Debian settings. Other
> errors appeared to apply to the fact that I issued the command from
> GNOME, and cupsdconf appears to be compiled under KDE.

Well I configure printers using cups by pointing my browser at
http://localhost:631/admin and loging in as root.

For network printers it is usually a setting of jetdirect on URI:
socket://ip:9100

Works for me on HP printers, and brother likes emulating HP for many
things, so it might work.

I have never heard of cupsdconf, but based on the output you had, it
looks like a KDE invention, and not a cupsys component.  Use the cups
interface to configure cups.

Len Sorensen
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