make a networked printer available to a subnet

[Thomas Milne]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

Well, i only tried browsing after typing it in failed.

>> 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.
>

Yeah, I've checked that.

I have always hated printing. Whenever someone used to call and say
they had a problem with printing, I would break out in a cold sweat.
Printers always seem to be a pain in the ass. I guess it was because I
was always supporting Windows clients...still.

Thanks for the tips :-)

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