[ale] finding printer connected to wireless router

[Jim Kinney]

this really sounds like a windows-only printer share device to me.

Try installing the missing client tools (samba-client, ipp, etc) on your
linux machine and then treat the printer as a windows shared printer (i.e.
it's shared out by a windows machine that it's USB connected to).

You can also try using the IPP ports with the IP address instead of the
jet-direct port.

Lastly, I've had decent success setting up a problem printer (not like this
one) using the browser cups client when the distro printer config tools
fail me.

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>wrote:

> I just bought a Belkin N600 wireless router. It allows you to connect
> your printer to the router via USB cable. I can print to this printer
> in Windows. But in Linux, I have one problem after another. This is in
> Linux Mint 12. If I try CUPS, it never sees a printer at the IP
> address of the router. If I create the printer anyway and use the IP
> address, plus port, like so: 192.168.2.1:9100. The printer appears to
> get installed. But if I try to print anything, CUPS just says "the
> printer is busy". If I try using the standard printer setup tools in
> Gnome, I'm immediately greeted by this message:
>
> "FirewallD is not running..."
>
> And a notice about needing mdns, ipp, ipp-client and samba-client
> enabled on the firewall. Extensive googling hasn't found anybody who
> got past this issue. I don't even know if it's  *the* issue preventing
> my printer from being seen on the network. But all available tools
> fail to show anything connected to the router. I don't know where to
> turn. Please let me know if fellow ALErs have figures this out before.
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