CUPS, Alpine, and printserving

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Oct 31 20:42:11 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 17:43 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:22:18 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:50 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >> Ok, here is the deal. Configure all the printers on the server. On the
> >> clients do no configuration at all ,none. And you will be able to print
> >> to all the printers.
> > 
> > This used to be the case.  Unfortunately, starting with Fedora 9, the
> > minimum that is now needed on the clients has changed from "none" to:
> > 
> > * enable Network Printing Client (IPP) packets through the firewall by
> > selection System->Administration->Firewall, selecting the "Network
> > Printing Client (IPP)" check-box and clicking Apply.
> 
> 	WOW!! What a difference! I did that on machine #2 (only, so far).
> 
> 	When I click on Printers, I see what the machine thinks are 
> *nine* : my wife's downstairs is there twice, once as itself and once 
> with "-fax" appended to it. All the other seven are my one machine, once 
> as default with my name for the machine it's on, but no IP; the others 
> have either an IP or some other indication where they are; I'm seeing it 
> double on #1 (as default and not), and double on #4 (with its same 
> correct IP both times, not together); sometimes it shows as published, 
> sometimes not.
> 
> 	I tried to print the router's table, with IP and MAC numbers, 
> from a browser (Konqueror, despite the fact i run Gnome); but it just 
> asked me if the printer were connected.
> 
> 	Iiuc, I should go do the same on the other two clients (machine 
> #3 and #4, no printer attached), but *not* on #1, which does have the 
> printer, and must therefore be acting as the server. Right?
Not necessarily. This case is somewhat special. Are you saying you want
that printer available to all the client machines. To do that you need
to read very carefully the document on the web interface concerning
configuring cupsd.conf. Otherwise , you probably will not to be able to
print to that printer from the machine it is attached to. If you tell me
it is printing to that machine as well as the other machines you have
lucked out.
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