On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:57 am, Robt. Miller wrote:
I have 2 SuSE machines and I want to share a printer. On the host machine I updated the /etc/hosts.lpd file with the address that I want to allow and on the remote machine I ran Yast to configure a remote printer. For name of printer I made up a name, spool directory was automatic, server name I put the IP of the host machine, and name of printer on server I put lp. When I hit F4 to create it gives me.. The computer 192.168.0.200 could not be reached over the network. Do you want to create the printer anyway? ..these computers communicate fine so I assume I'm filling this out wrong or using the wrong tool. Please enlighten me - thank you!
Firstly don't use YAST to configure CUPS on the client machine. It's only usefull for setting up a machine which has printers attached. The file /etc/hosts.lpd is not used by CUPS. All the security settings are on the server /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file which are far more extensive. The file is very well commented. The following steps should get you working. 1) make sure you have the ip address of each machine in both of the /etc/hosts file. 2) On the client machine edit /etc/cups/client.conf file and add in the address of the server. 3) If the client machine still can't see the server you may have to edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on the server. Check the permission settings for browsing. 4) If still not working check to see if the cupsd is running on both machines. ps -ef | grep cups It might be that the cupsd is not running on the client machine. /etc/init.d/cups restart should do the trick. In YAST --> System --> Runlevel editor you can set cups to start on boot. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------