make a networked printer available to a subnet

[Thomas Milne]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 01:09:26AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
>> we have two wireless routers in our hose:
>>
>> - an old linksys running tomato-pppoe so teksavvy an avoid the Bell
>> throttling;
>> - a new d-link whose wireless network actually works, unlike the one on the
>> linksys, which has been extremely erratic for years.
>>
>> The two routers are in separate parts of hte house, and our printer is
>> attached (via cat5 cable) to the tomato-run router for arcane reasons.  It's
>> an hp officejet (nice printing quality, a little slow & really expensive
>> ink); here's the printers.conf listing from /etc/cups:
>> <DefaultPrinter HP-Officejet-Pro-8500-A909a>
>> Info HP Officejet Pro Print Function
>> Location Downstairs
>> MakeModel HP Officejet Pro 8500 a909a hpijs, 3.10.2
>> DeviceURI hp:/net/Officejet_Pro_8500_A909a?zc=HP73DA4B
>> State Idle
>> StateTime 1284560250
>> Type 8425500
>> Filter application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -
>> Filter application/vnd.cups-postscript 100 foomatic-rip
>> Filter application/vnd.cups-pdf 0 foomatic-rip
>> Accepting Yes
>> Shared Yes
>> JobSheets none none
>> QuotaPeriod 0
>> PageLimit 0
>> KLimit 0
>> OpPolicy default
>> ErrorPolicy retry-job
>> </Printer>
>>
>> Here's my question:  how do I access this printer from the d-link's wireless
>> network?  Do I have to open ports on one router or another?  The device uri
>> has been converted to that odd hp:/, but as I remember it used to be and LPD
>> queue on a fixed IP.  Again:  can I push the printer info out into the
>> subnet, or is this a lost cause?
>
> If you have it working with cups on a machine, then just have that
> machine share the cups printer with the network.  By default cups does
> NOT share printers.  You can change it using https://localhost:631/admin/
>
> There is a checkbox for sharing.
>
> Make sure you are not firewalling port 631 of course.
>
> You won't even need to setup anything on the other machines as long as
> they have the cups client software setup, they should auto detect the
> printer once it is shared and just work.
>

Should this work automatically for a Windows client? Or do I need
Samba to share a printer to Windows?

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