I recently installed a new to me Brother HL-2140 printer on one of the computers on my LAN. It has a USB interface. I used the Brother installer to install it on that computer, and, after a few false starts, seems to be working fine.
I now want to try to also install the printer on another computer via the network (Ethernet) if possible. (Aside: In an earlier successful iteration, I connected the printer to two of my computers using a USB hub and got the printer to work from both of those computers.) When I run the Brother installer, I eventually get to some text like this: <quote> Restarting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd. # Will you specify the Device URI? [Y/n] ->y 0: hp 1: smb 2: https 3: http 4: ipps 5: ipp 6: socket 7: lpd 8: beh 9: hpfax 10 (I): Specify IP address. 11 (A): Auto. (usb://dev/usblp0) </quote> On my first attempt at doing an install to work over the Ethernet, I chose option 10, and then specified my IP address (partially obfuscated below just for kicks), but that did not work: <quote> select the number of destination Device URI. 10 enter IP address ->192.168.n.n lpadmin -p HL2140 -v socket://192.168.n.n -E Test Print? [y/N] ->y wait 5s. lpr -P HL2140 /usr/share/cups/data/testprint Hit Enter/Return key. root@s19:/rhk/downloads2/printers/Brother_HL-2140/Brother# </quote> This did not work (the testprint was not printed). Are any of the other options likely to work? (I don't want to try them all to find out). To repeat, the printer is a USB printer, with the Brother driver installed on one computer. I am / was hoping that I could install the Brother driver on another computer (on my LAN) using one of the network options (see the list of 11 choices shown above). Thanks! -- rhk If you reply: snip, snip, and snip again; leave attributions; avoid HTML; avoid top posting; and keep it "on list". (Oxford comma included at no charge.) If you change topics, change the Subject: line. Writing is often meant for others to read and understand (legal agreements excepted?) -- make it easier for your reader by various means, including liberal use of whitespace and minimal use of (obscure?) jargon, abbreviations, acronyms, and references. If someone else has already responded to a question, decide whether any response you add will be helpful or not ... A picture is worth a thousand words -- divide by 10 for each minute of video (or audio) or create a transcript and edit it to 10% of the original.
