[KLUG Members] set up network printing...

[Mark Bystry]

ok, fooled around with the my network printing last night. it was easier than i thought. here are my 
steps:

suse 10.0 kde (my server)

1.) start menu, utilities, printing, printer manager.

2.) printer server, configure server.

3.) server, "server name" = my suse ip address (192.168.1.104).

     network, "listen to" = *631, "hostname lookups" = off.

     browsing, "use browsing" = checked, "cups" = checked, "browse addresses" = add 192.168.1.* 
(remove deny all), allow @local.

     restart cup sever.

4.) firewall, allow "ipp client" and "ipp server".


ubuntu laptop
(sorry, i'm doing this from memory and i might not get the right terminology. still new to ubuntu)

1.) turn on "listen for remote broadcasts" from the far right pulldown.

2.) add new printer. i typed in the uri address which was something like 
"192.168.1.104:631/printers/hpofficejet4200series"

3.) done. print a test page. it takes a few seconds longer to send the job to the printer...maybe 
because i'm wireless or something. makes sense since wifi is slower than wired.


windows xp laptop.

1.) couldn't get it to work. probably something i was doing wrong. so i setup samba on the suse 10 
box and shared my home directory, which automatically carried over any printers that i had 
installed. once i set up networking on the windows side i was able to see the printer (just like any 
normal person would see it in an all windows environment). perhaps setting up samba was a cop-out 
but hey, i got it working. i also struggled getting the printer driver loaded for some reason. that 
has never happened to me before.

thanks everyone...



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Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2