[cups.general] adding a samba printer of another network
Luca Ferrari
fluca1978 at infinito.it
Thu Feb 10 05:16:05 PST 2005
On 01:48, giovedì 10 febbraio 2005 Daniel Kasak's cat walking on the keyboard
wrote:
> Luca Ferrari wrote:
> > On 23:30, martedì 8 febbraio 2005 Daniel Kasak's cat walking on the
> > keyboard
> >
> > wrote:
> >>Luca Ferrari wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>if I want to add a printer to cups (SMB printer) in the same network of
> >>>the linux machine, I can use lpadmin:
> >>>lpadmin -v smb://s93/hps93 .......
> >>>
> >>>but what if I want to add a printer of another network? Where can I
> >>>specify the ip address? I've tried with something like:
> >>>lpadmin -v smb://192.168.2.20/hps20
> >>>and the printer is added, but it does not work then.
> >>>
> >>>Any help?
> >>>
> >>>Luca
> >>
> >>That looks right. I use the web admin tool, so I can't comment on the
> >>'lpadmin' bit of it, but the device URI is correct.
> >>
> >>For smb shares, remember you may have to enter a username / password,
> >>which makes your URI:
> >>
> >>smb://username:password@192.168.2.20/hps20
> >>
> >>Also check you can ping 192.168.2.20, and check that you can see the
> >>share, with something like:
> >>
> >>smbclient -U username -L 192.168.2.20
> >>[enter password]
> >>
> >>Also, is this 'other network' a domain? You may have to join the domain
> >>before you're able to connect.
> >>
> >>Also, next time you post, try adding some logs. It makes it easier to
> >>figure out what the problem is.
> >
> > Well, the network is not a domain, and I have guest access to the
> > printer, so I don't need a username/password.
> > Here there's an example of the output of logs:
> >
> > I [09/Feb/2005:09:43:12 +0100] Adding start banner page "none" to job 40.
> > I [09/Feb/2005:09:43:12 +0100] Adding end banner page "none" to job 40.
> > I [09/Feb/2005:09:43:12 +0100] Job 40 queued on 'hp711' by 'root'.
> >
> > where hp711 has the following configuration in the printers.conf:
> >
> > <Printer hp711>
> > Info Centralino Roteglia
> > DeviceURI smb://192.168.2.11/hp711
> > State Idle
> > Accepting Yes
> > JobSheets none none
> > QuotaPeriod 0
> > PageLimit 0
> > KLimit 0
> > </Printer>
> >
> >
> > Of course I can ping the machine, as well as I can smbclient it:
> >
> > sede:/var/log/cups # smbclient -L 711 -I 192.168.2.11
> > Password:
> >
> > Sharename Type Comment
> > --------- ---- -------
> > PRINTER$ Disk
> > HP711 Printer
> > IPC$ IPC Comunicazioni remote tra processi
> >
> > Server Comment
> > --------- -------
> >
> > Workgroup Master
> > --------- -------
> >
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Luca
>
> You're using 2 different IP addresses. Your original post talks of
> 192.168.2.20 and your most recent post talks of 192.168.2.11
>
> Is this the problem?
No, I'm sorry but I deleted the first printer and re-created the 2.11 one.
Nevertheless, the idea is that I cannot print from the network 192.168.1.0 on
a printer of a computer on the network 192.168.2.0.
Luca
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Luca Ferrari,
fluca1978 at infinito.it
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