On Sunday 24 September 2006 17:00, Aaron Konstam wrote: >On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 13:55 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:28:35 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: >> > How do I print to a remote CUPS printer >> > from machines on which I am not root? >> > On the remote machine, FC5, I am root. >> > On the clients, FreeBSD and FC3, I am not root, >> > but can open TCP ports. >> > Is there a nonroot IPP client that can >> > be used to print on a remote printer? >> > >> > -- >> > Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > "it stands to reason that they weren't always called the ancients." >> > -- Daniel >> > Jackson >> >> On the CUPS server you must make the print queues shared. The clients' >> CUPS will automatically see the shared queues on the network. >> >> On the server, go to System->Administration->Printing, click on the >> queue you want to share, then Edit, etc. >> >> Oh, and you must have port 631 tcp and udp open on the CUPS server. > >That is absolutely the wrong way to share printers using CUPS. All > printers on the same lan as the server can print to the server's > printers by default. No configuration is required. > > Tell that to the cupsys install on my kubuntu-6.06.1 box, Aaron. I've now spent prolly 12 hours over several weeks trying to get it to see the 4 printer profiles shared to the rest of my 192.168 network out of this box. Its blind. >-- >Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
