Sharing my printer for a Windoze machine?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 04.10.2004 schrieb Søren Neigaard um 21:23:

> I have an old HP DeskJet 540. I have open up port 631/tcp/udp but how
> would I get Windows XP to print to this printer?
> 
> Should I add it as a Internet printer, or? I have tried that with this
> URL:
> 
> http://MY_IP/HP540 - Can not connect
> http://MY_IP:631/HP540 - Wants a username/password, and when given a
> valid username/password for the machine it says it cant log on.

You didn't set up Cups properly, to allow the connects from outside.

> So... What to do here?

Start with reading the documentation:

/usr/share/doc/cups-1.1.20/

> Søren

Alexander


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