On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 23:24, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Mo, den 04.10.2004 schrieb Søren Neigaard um 21:23: > > > I have an old HP DeskJet 540. I have open up port 631/tcp/udp but how > > would I get Windows XP to print to this printer? > > > > Should I add it as a Internet printer, or? I have tried that with this > > URL: > > > > http://MY_IP/HP540 - Can not connect > > http://MY_IP:631/HP540 - Wants a username/password, and when given a > > valid username/password for the machine it says it cant log on. > > You didn't set up Cups properly, to allow the connects from outside. > > > So... What to do here? > > Start with reading the documentation: > > /usr/share/doc/cups-1.1.20/ It turns out that I did setup Cups properly, but I did not use the correct URL from windows. I needed to add "printers" to the URL, like this: http://MY_IP:631/printers/HP540 Then it all worked fine. /Søren
