Sharing my printer for a Windoze machine?
Søren Neigaard
s.neigaard at tiscali.dk
Mon Oct 4 22:30:46 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 23:24, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> 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/
It turns out that I did setup Cups properly, but I did not use the
correct URL from windows. I needed to add "printers" to the URL, like
this: http://MY_IP:631/printers/HP540
Then it all worked fine.
/Søren
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