Remote Printing

Newsgroups:  gmane.linux.debian.user
Date:        Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:42:02 -0400

This letter documents,

How I set up printing on debian sid remotely ie: from 1 computer running sid to another computer running sid.

Here are my brief notes. My network is 192.168.10.* and I have the server set up at 192.168.10.18 key things are:

On server:

edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

1) delete the following two lines

Localhost:631
/var/run/cups/cups.sock

substitute with the line

Port 631

2) add the line

Browsing On

3) In Location stanza allow the following

<Location />
  Order allow,deny
  Allow localhost
  AuthType None
  Allow From 192.168.10.64
  Allow From 192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0
#  alternative Allow From 192.168.*.*
</Location>

????????????? possibly may need a line ServerName 192.168.10.18

?????????????? possiby may need a line BrowseAddress 192.168.10.255

I then set up a printer. i called it hplaserjet on the server. I used cups web administration

localhost:631

On the client machine I created a file called /etc/cups/client.conf

which has the line

ServerName 192.168.10.18

where the ip address is that of your printer server.

i then needed to go into the web based adminstration module on the client to install the printer

in web browser open up

localhost:631

go into administrative module

i needed to set up the printer.

click add a printer

call it anything you want then enter this location

ipp://192.168.10.18:631/printers/hplaserjet

where 192.168.10.18 is the printer server.

then select the right driver

then this should work.

i dont know why this is so darn difficult now on debian.

Mitchell

Note On both machines I had the following packages

$dpkg -l|grep cups
ii  cupsys                     1.2.2-2 CUPS - server
ii  cupsys-bsd                 1.2.2-2 CUPS - BSD commands
ii  cupsys-client              1.2.2-2 CUPS - client progr
ii  cupsys-common              1.2.2-2 CUPS - common files
ii  cupsys-driver-gimpprint    5.0.0-2 printer drivers for CUPS
ii  cupsys-driver-gutenprint   5.0.0-2 printer drivers for CUPS
ii  gnome-cups-manager         0.31-2  CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME
ii  libcupsimage2              1.2.2-2 CUPS - image libs
ii  libcupsys2                 1.2.2-2 CUPS - libs
ii  libgnomecups1.0-1          0.2.2-5 GNOME library for CUPS interaction
ii  libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a     0.31-2  UI extensions to libgnomecups