[ale] printing to a cups printer?

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Mon Apr 14 15:27:14 EDT 2003


Okay, I mixed up who had the printer and who didn't, but you've already 
got things figured out.  Just put CUPs on your machine and start the 
server.  The default is that the server will poll the LAN on port 631 
for any other servers.  If it finds one then they negotiate and trade 
info.  Your machine should pick up the printer as a possible queue 
automatically.  If not then you can specifically add info about your 
wife's CUPs server into your machines cups.conf file.

The samba stuff requires that you have the print system defined as CUPs 
not LPRNG in smb.conf and that you advertise the printer via Samba.  You 
do have to have the Samba backend for CUPs installed.
Dow


Robert L. Harris wrote:

>I have the cupsys and cupsys-client on my wife's machine and it's
>printing great right now.  I'm wondering about making her machine share
>out the printer to other cupsys enabled clients.  Once I can print from
>my desktop to her machine I'll be figuring out printing from my desktop
>in windows mode to her cupsys one, probably going to have to load samba.
>
>Thus spake James Sumners (james at sumners.ath.cx):
>
>  
>
>>You probably want 'cupsys' and 'cupsys-client'. Those are the two basic Debian
>>packages you need to get cups running on a Debian box. You may also want to
>>consider installing 'cupsomatic-ppd'.
>>
>>To share my printer I just use samba.
>>
>>On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:29:38 -0400
>>"Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris at rdlg.net> wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I don't see a debian cupsys-server package.  Any idea what the binary
>>>name might be?  With a filename that's in the server only I can find
>>>what provides it.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>
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