On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 22:41:37 -0000, Ed wrote: [...]
> I added my user name to groups lp and lpadmin, rebooted, and can see both > in groups username. > > However, using the Desktop->Administration->printing Add Printer tool > still does not produce a printers.conf file in /etc/cups, BUT using the > CUPS HTML frontend, I did create a printers.conf file. In fact, the CUPS > HTML frontend 'said' the installation was successful. However, I still > can not print. The problem probably is the printer address. I don't > know what to enter here. My printer is hooked up to another computer on > my local network that runs samba and my windows laptops can see and print > to it. If I look at the printers.conf file on that computer, there is a > line that says DeviceURI hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device.... > (more junk here). Anyway, not knowing what to put for printer address, I > put http://'the ip address of the local computer that has the printer > connected to it':9100. The CUPS HTML frontend tool seemed happy with > that, but obviously, that was not really what it wanted as I can not > print even a test page. > > Still learning and reading, but not there yet. See section "CUPS and Samba" here: http://wiki.debian.org/CUPS To test your ability to access the SMB-shared printer, run this command on the client machine: smbclient -U USER -L //HOST This will list all SMB-shares (folders, printers, etc.) which USER can access on HOST. (You will be prompted for USER's password on HOST.) It is also possible to bypass Samba by using ipp:// to connect to the print server or by putting the appropriate ServerName into the client's cupsd.conf file. However, both these methods require you to change the default cupsd.conf on the print server to accept these connections. See "man cupsd.conf" for details. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
