Re: How do I setup the client and server for network printing?

Anonymous <anonymous-OBZt+0Fux+w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Kent wrote:
> > I am trying to setup a local subnet of Linux Red Hat V9.0 machines
> >and use CUPS to handle the printing. I have one printer connected to
> >one of the machines. I have been trying to configure the other
> >machines as clients and set them up as having remote printers. I
> >looked at all of the Admin/User manuals on the CUPS.org site and did
> >not find much detail as far as configuring the network printers. The
> >RedHad GUI and the CUPS Printer web admin page seems to go OK when I
> >setup the remote printer, but the files never get from the client to
> >the server.
> > 
> > Is there a good example somewhere on how to correctly setup network
> >printers with CUPS? Or is there somewhere that will show where to
> >look to find the bottle necks?
> > 
> > Kent Anderson
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hear, hear. I have the same problem. I just want to set up one RedHat
> Linux system to be the printer server (printer hooking up to the
> server's parallel port), and the other Linux system to be a client
> sending print jobs to the server. I used RedHat GUI tool to set up and
> share the printer on the server. When I do
> http://localhost:631/printers on the client, the client does see the
> printer on the server. I can even print a test page from here.
> However, nothing happens when I print for real, no errors or anything.
> 
> The documents I read told me that the printer can be detected
> automatically by the client system, which seems like my situation.
> Something is still missing.

One thing you might check is that the server box doesn't have a
software firewall set up. I went through similar machinations trying
to get some macs to see a printer I had connected to a GNU/Linux box
and the default RedHat install was blocking connections on a bunch of
ports needed by CUPS causing all kinds of problems.

-Peter

P.S. Of course I wasn't able to actually get things working but I at
least got to the point where the clien boxes could actually talk to
the CUPS server.

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Peter Seibel                                      
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