setup remote printer in cups

Chris Aitken chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org
Tue Oct 16 02:26:28 UTC 2007


Tyler Aviss wrote:
> Are you printing to an ip address or a hostname?
>   
I've tried both.
> Is the hostname available to PC3...
Yes.
>  what happens if you go
> http://hostname:631 from PC3?
>   
In a browser or as the uri? As the uri it does nothing. Typing it in the 
url field in Mozilla it brings up the cups interface.
> On 10/15/07, Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> I have a printer attached to PC1.
>>
>> I print to that printer remotely from PC2.
>>
>> I want to setup PC3 to print to that remote printer as well. Nothing is
>> working. I am trying to copy the settings I used (on PC2) to set up
>> remote printing on PC3. I can only see so many settings in the cups
>> 'printer' on PC1 and PC2 without destroying those 'printers'. Is there a
>> way to see all the settings I entered when I (successfully) created the
>> 'printers' on PC1 and PC2?
>>
>> All three PCs are on te Internet and can ping one another. Just to
>> reiterate, I can print and I can print remotely - I just can't repeat
>> the steps (to set up a PC to print remotely).
>>
>> PC1, PC2 ad PC3 are not the real names of the computers - I'm just
>> trying to make it easy to track things...
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Chris
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