make a networked printer available to a subnet

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:40:30PM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:
> I tried http://node1:631/printers/MP250 (also tried lower case)
> 
> and http://192.168.1.11/printers/MP250 again with lower and upper
> 
> No go.
> 
> Is there somewhere I can check the 'path', ie. that there is something
> like /printers/mp250?

Your web browser should work.  It should show the info about the printer
when connected by a web browser.  The same URL works for IPP requests
as well.

I have setup printers on windows this way a number of times by giving
it the URL http://IP:631/printers/name and then selecting the driver
for the printer.  http can be replaced with ipp: although windows seems
to treat them the same.

It is not case sensitive.  The :631 is important though.  Hopefully you
don't have a firewall installed blocking things.

You can also check the cups logs to see if a request came in from windows
when trying to set it up.

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Len Sorensen
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