Jack Gates wrote: > On Wednesday 09 August 2006 13:27, Erich Carlson wrote: > >> This is a good tutorial on setting up windows to cups printers: >> >> http://www.owlfish.com/thoughts/winipp-cups-2003-07-20.html > I just used this link last night for printing to my HP OfficeJet from Windows XP Pro to my FC5 box. > Thanks for the link. I don't understand this Hostname thing for the > CUPS machine. What exactly does this mean? How and where do I > create this Hostname? > >From the Windows box, can you reach your FC5 box by name? such as ping <name>? I have a 2Wire Home Portal DSL router and had to enter the name as: <host>.gateway.2wire.net, So, with my OfficeJet 7130 having the queue name oj7130, I entered: 'http://<host>.gateway.2wire.net:631/printers/oj7130' as the network address. If I weren't using the host name it would be 'http://192.168.1.34:631/printers/oj7130'. I did install the HP Drivers on the Windows XP box, but I hadn't enabled the printer to receive the RAW byte stream, so I was still unable to print until I uncommented the application/octet-stream lines in the /etc/cups/mime.types and /etc/cups/mime.convs files. Richard.
