[KLUG Members] set up network printing...

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> 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.

If you had set "listen to" to "*:631" then you shouldn't have had to
specify the print server IP.  That is the purpose of IPP browsing - all
the IPP servers and clients find each other via broadcast.  You only
need to specify the print server if you are in connected in such a
fashion that you can't hear the broadcasts.

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

Yep, the step everybody forgets. :) 

> 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"

Is this the printer server?  If it is the client you shouldn't of had to
add anything.

> 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. 

It isn't intuitive;  but then nothing about printing on Windows is.

> 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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