Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 06/19/2007 01:30 AM, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
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1. You need to ensure that the printer is set up for sharing. SUSE/CUPS does this by default in an openSUSE installation.
From reading the header of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, I do believe CUPS by default shares all printers, in any distro. There is no comment there to suggest that it has been changed at all by the opensuse team.
If you have your Linux box set up as a Web server (say with Apache): a. From Win, enter the following URL in a browser:
:631/printers. This displays the CUPS Web Actually, you do not need a web server running on the Linux server; those typically won't be listening on port 631 anyway, and even if they were, they would not know what to do with the request. CUPS runs its own mini-http server, which (again by default, though you could change it) listens on port 631 on all interfaces.
If you are having problems connecting to the CUPS administration webpage at this point, it is likely that port 631 is closed. Just move opening the IPP port (which you have as point 5) to become point 1.b and this should solve it :-)
Bottom line: It all works, and I'm back on the job instead of futzing around with the system ... I completely forgot about the CUPS web server: Odd, I had a few problems with that a few years ago - solved & forgotten.