Re: [SLE] Configuring CUPS for remote printers
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Sorry for the delay in responding to this. I've been having frequent mail problems, since my ISP switched the mail service to Yahoo.
I'm trying to use CUPS, to print from my notebook computer (SuSE 9.1), via VPN to a printer connected to my desktop system (SuSE 9.0). However, I don't seem to get indication from CUPS on the desktop system, that it's receiving the print jobs. I believe there's a setting in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, that allows CUPS to only work with local printers, but I'm not sure what it would be. I can print from the notebook, when it's plugged into the same LAN as the desktop system.
Any ideas?
It sounds like a networking problem. Is the 'laptop printer' defined as a networked printer ie with its location on another machine? How are you sending the jobs (wirelessly, infrared, wing and a prayer)? Is the printer shared on your desktop system so that the laptop user can use the printer?
Cups works fine on the local network, in that I can print from my notebook, to the printer attached to my desktop system. However, should I connect via vpn, I can no longer print. For whatever reason, cups doesn't seem to work via the vpn, even though other things, such as network browsings, ssh etc., work fine. The vpn connects from my notebook to my linux firewall, which is on the same network, as my desktop system.
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James Knott