[cups.general] Printer sharing not working

Trey Sizemore trey at fastmail.fm
Thu Jan 12 07:38:10 PST 2006


On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:56:44 -0500, "Trey Sizemore" <trey at fastmail.fm>
said:
> 
> On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:33:06 -0500, "Trey Sizemore" <trey at fastmail.fm>
> said:
> > 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.
> > 
> Sorry, appears that the attachment from last time did not go through. 
> Here it is again.
> 

Anyone?  This is driving me crazy as it *appears* that the settings in
the conf file are sufficient to do what I want.

Regards.

-Trey
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  Trey Sizemore
  trey at fastmail.fm





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