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! Hi, I have been able to do this. If you are planning to use a non-mixed
I updated the /etc/hosts.lpd file with the address that I want printing network and just use CUPS, this is fairly easy. All you will need to use is Yast2 for the most part. On the machine hosting the printer, run Yast2 and once it comes up, click on the advanced button. Once you do, you should see the opotions that you will need to set in order to get your printer to be shared. You will need to set the browse address. If you want to share this printer network wide, then you will need to set this to a address that covers the whole network. In your exapmle this would be 192.168.0.0 Then you need to tell CUPS to allow clients to connect. Fill in this appropriately. Finish the configuration. Then on your client, Run Yast2 again and click on the advanced button. Set this to client only. There is only one thing that you have to set and that is the address of the computer that has the printer. Test for connectivity. You should be able to get the server is accessable message. Finish the configuration. Yast may tell you that it wants to delete some packages to make the computer a CUPS client only. Go ahead and tell it to do so. Now you should be able to use the printer. Also make sure that you set up your hosts file so that the host names on your network will resolve correctly. If not, Cups may take longer to attach than you want. Make sure the info is on all machines. You will need to edit this file as root. It is found in the /etc directory Good Luck -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, We just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."