On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 21:54 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. > I would be glad to. I do this on my home network which almost the same configuration. Show me you cupd.conf file and you client.conf and maybe I can help you. It works like a charm but I admit I had some trouble configuring the cupsd.conf file at first. Of course this is a fedora list and I don't use kubantu. ======================================================================= Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
