[cups.general] Printer sharing not working

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Fri Jan 6 08:57:35 PST 2006


I have an Epson Stylus C84 that is connected to my desktop linux machine
running SUSE 10.0 via USB.  I can print from the desktop to the printer
without issus.  I also have a laptop in the same room running SUSE 10 as
well that is connected to the desktop via an Ethernet cable connected to
a wireless router.  The laptop has a physical connection to the router
and is not utilizing wireless connectivity.  Additionally I have an
Apple Mac mini in another room that get it's internet connectivity to
the same wireless router via Airport.

I have been able to have all the machines use the Epson printer in the
past but that is no longer the case.  In fact, I have reformatted the
main desktop to which the printer is attached, so I'm starting over from
square one.  The Mac mini can "see" the printer as I have broadcasting
enabled in my cupsd.conf (attached), but I get a non-descript error
message now anytime I try to print to the printer.  The printer is *not*
a network printer (no IP).  The print jobs on the laptop are queued up,
but never make it to the printer for printing.  Only the desktop can
print without issue.

I'm hoping someone can look at the attached cupsd.conf file and see what
I might have wrong there.  I want to be able to administer CUPS from any
machine on the local network (I'm using 192.168.0.* addresses) and print
from any machine as well.  New machines added to the internal network
should be able to discover the printer as well.  I do *not* have a DNS
or DHCP server running locally, so each machine sees others when I
specifically designate their IP address.  The router provides the IP
address of each machine via DHCP (none have static IPs at this time). 
This is identical to the way I had it set up before when printing was
working (with the exception of the attached cupsd.conf file which could
have changed).

Thanks for your time and help.
-- 
  Trey Sizemore
  trey at fastmail.fm



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