Sharing printers with CUPS
Well now that the wifi is sorted out (ish) for the time being, I’m moving onto printing. Recently both my desktop (at home) and laptop (at work) have started having issues printing - printers seem to accept the request but just ditch it (as if it is incomplete or scrambled).
As part of the diagnosis, I’ve told my desktop to share the Samsung ML-1610 printer to other machines on the network via IPP (Internet Printing Protocol). This was remarkably easy:
- goto http://desktop:631
- select “Manage server”
- tick “Share published printers connected to this system”
- tick “Allow printing from the Internet”
- select “Change settings”
On the laptop:
- System->Admin->Printing
- Add printer
- Internet Printing Protocol
- type “desktop” into host
- select “Find Queue”
- select “Samsung”
- change “desktop.local:631″ in host to something sane (desktop.smop.co.uk:631 for example)
- select “Verify”
- select “Forward”
- alter name, description, location if desired
Well both the CUPS test page and firefox print fine from both PCs now. I had updated the software on both machines so maybe that fixed it - they are running Debian unstable (desktop) and Ubuntu Hardy (laptop).
Posted: March 24th, 2008 under Linux, My setup.
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