On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:01:21 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 17:16 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:00:16 -0500, 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. >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> >> And exactly why is it absolutely wrong? It works flawlessly on >> my lan. And in fact if I don't make the queues shared on the CUPS >> server, they are not automatically seen by the clients. Of course, >> I can tell each client separately about the address of the server, >> etc. Of course the clients on the lan can print to the server's >> printers by default, if the server tells the lan about its printers. >> That is, if the printers are marked as shared on the server. >> Am I missing something here? >> >> > Well I absolutely should not use the word absolutely so loosely. There > is not such a thing as marking a printer as shared under CUPS. That is a > construct that system-config-printer has brought over from the pre-CUPS > era. The printer server sends out browsing information to all the > machines on the lan and the clients become aware of the printers > available to them from these browsing messages of printers that are > available. So let's not get entangled in semantics. The fedora printer config utilities use the term "shared" for all you said above (which is correct). > If you use the web interface on the clients you will see the > printers on the server which have been browsed. All CUPS printers should > be configured using the web interface. Says who? > No marking printers as shared is > necessary. > What if I don't want a printer to be seen by some/all clients? The most flexible way to configure the printer is probably by editing the config files by hand. At first I thought you were trying to suggest a different configuration of the cups server. I see now (as I suspected) that you're only suggesting a different interface for configuring the same thing. The interface is off topic here. The man wants to know how to print from downtown to his home printer.
