network printing

[Dave Germiquet]

HI Len,

Thats good to know.. I guess I have to learn.. interfaces are better :)

I've been editing configs all the time, which sometimes get me into
complicated scenarios.

 I'll give that a try and also forward that to my co-workers.


On Feb 8, 2008 12:49 PM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:59:02AM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> > I'm trying to print across the network from a fedora 7 machine to an
> > ubuntu 7.10 machine (printer is attached to that one). I thought I knew
> > all the gotchas as I've done this so many times.
> >
> > Both machines are on the Internet, I can scp files between them, they
> > can ping each other, both have openssh-server installed, I changed the
> > line (/etc/cups/cupsd.conf) from 'Allow localhost' to 'Allow From All'
> > (see excerpt below). What else can I try? The print server (do I
> > automaticaly call it a print server because the printer is physically
> > attached to it and the other computers print to it across the network?)
> > prints to the printer okay.
>
> I have had very bad luck (as in it didn't work) editing the cups config
> manually on newer cups versions.
>
> What does work is going to the http://localhost:631/admin/ page and
> clicking the checkbox for sharing printers with the network and then
> saving settings.  I didn't bother checking what it added to the config,
> but it worked.  With the web interface there really is no reason to mess
> with the config file anymore.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
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