[clue-tech] CUPS remote printing

[Warren Turkal]

On Monday 05 March 2007 20:36, Collins Richey wrote:
> On the desktop I have in cupsd.conf

I am about to describe using browsing to discover the printers instead of 
setting them up on each client. This is the power of CUPS and part of why it 
is so cool.

Do you have a queue for the printer on the desktop? If not, create it and test 
it. Once you have the queue working locally, check the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf 
to make sure you have browsing on. I have the following two lines to enable 
it in my cupsd.conf.

Browsing On             #turns browsing on
BrowseAddress @LOCAL    #broadcasts queues to local networks

I believe that this can be set from the web gui. On the desktop, go to 
http://localhost:631/admin/, and make sure that "Share published printers 
connected to this system" is checked.

Okay, now we move to the client.

In cupsd.conf, make sure the following three lines exist.

Browsing On            #turns browsing on
BrowseOrder allow,deny #browsing info policy policy
BrowseAllow @LOCAL     #allow browsing broadcasts from local networks

I believe that this can also be set from the web gui. On the laptop, go to 
http://localhost:631/admin/, and make sure that "Show printers shared by 
other systems" is checked.

This should allow your laptop to discover broadcasted queues on it's local 
network. My laptop will discover my queues on my local network at home, and 
it will discover the queues on my work network when I am at work.

Also, in KDE, make sure you have the CUPS system selected as your printing 
system.

wt
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Warren Turkal (w00t)