[ale] finding printer connected to wireless router

[Geoffrey Myers]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> 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).

As I read it, the printer connects directly to the router.  I would 
expect that it should be provided an IP there.  Jim, are you sure you're 
pointing your linux at the printer IP and not the router IP?

Just thinking out loud.

> 
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <http://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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