make a networked printer available to a subnet

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:27:00PM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 01:05:02AM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:
> >> Should this work automatically for a Windows client? Or do I need
> >> Samba to share a printer to Windows?
> >
> > It's automatic for most linux systems, and Mac OS X systems.  Windows
> > being Microsoft has to do things it own way and hence makes it hard.
> >
> > You can either share with samba, or you can actually use it directly
> > from windows.
> >
> > So if you have a printer in cups named "My_Printer_123", then in windows
> > you can install a printer by asking it to add a new printer, tell it to
> > add a network printer and use the URL:
> >
> > http://printerserver:631/printers/My_Printer_123 and then pick the right
> > driver for windows to use the printer of course.
> >
> > Mac and Linux being natively postscript don't need drivers on the client,
> > Windows being stupid and making the client do the rendering work and
> > then sending tons of bitmap data across the network does need a driver.
> >
> Well, I must be missing something important, because I cannot get this
> to work. I have tried every variation I can think of. I used the
> hostname, ip address, I tried the printer name in upper and lower
> case.
> 
> The only thing that I can think of that might be causing the problem,
> is that when I try 'browse' and choose my Linux computer (the one with
> the printer shared), I get an error about bad credentials. Not sure
> what to enter there, as entering my user account from my Linux
> computer does not work. I can't believe I would need to create a user
> for everyone who wants to print...

Don't browse.  Type it.  Browsing is only for smb/cifs networking.
This isn't like that.  It has to be manually typed.

> The settings for sharing on the printer are 'Share printers connected
> to this system' and in the printer settings --> access control it is
> 'allow printing for everyone'.
> 
> Is there some way I could configure the Linux machine differently so
> that discovering it from Windows would be easier?

Well you must make sure the print server is configured to
share in the first place.  There is a checkbox for that in
https://printserver:631/admin/ as far as I remember.  Sounds like you
did find that.

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Len Sorensen
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