On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:00:04PM +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I have a SuSE 9.2 Pro server with a printer attached to its LPT port nd configured via CUPS as a full server installation. I have tested the printer via YAST and I get the ASCII characters test print.
On the SuSE 9.0 Pro client, I have a CUPS client side install only and have tried to configure it to use the server configured printer. Alas NO Luck, even after specifying the server as 192.168.0.1/dev/lp0(Should that perhaps be //192.168.0.1/dev.lp0?). I have tried searching for IPP hosts and all hosts but cannot seem to get the client to recognize/communicate with the server CUPS install and let it use the servers printer.
Make sure that CUPS server allows connections from the network.
Look at the the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, section
I have been through the firewall settings on the server to check that it wasn't being restricted and have also pinged the server->client and client->server.
All you need on the firewall is TCP port 631.
How should I go about and test to find out where the error is? ie perhaps start a client side test print and then when it fails where should I look as the entries in /var/log/cups have not changed at all whilst I have been testing and trying to get printing working.
Check the files in /var/log/cups on the server
Can printer sharing be done between Linux boxen on the same private network(192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2)? I would certainly think so.
I am successfully sharing a parallel port printer connected to 9.2 machine. The clients are SUSE 9.2 and Mac OSX. -Kastus