On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 11:18 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote: > 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). I should just give up. The printer config utilities that use the term shared do not properly interact with cups. > > > 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? This is a good question aand I need to research a good answer. Right now all my documentation is boxed up so from memory I am not aware that you can do this since in cups printers are not shared individually but collectively. > > 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. > > > -- ======================================================================= Cruickshank's Law of Committees: If a committee is allowed to discuss a bad idea long enough, it will inevitably decide to implement the idea simply because so much work has already been done on it. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
