[cups.general] Looking for a printer in CUPS

[Helge Blischke]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

> I have a USB printer (HP OfficeJet) connected to my desktop,
> running CentOS-5.5, with cups-1.3.7-18.el5_5.7.x86_64 .
> This works fine on the desktop.
> 
> Now I am trying to access the printer from my laptop,
> running Fedora-13 with 1:cups-1.4.2-28.fc12.i686 .
> 
> I thought CUPS was meant to be able to find
> a printer on the local LAN?
> Have I misunderstood this point,
> or am I mis-applying CUPS in some way?
> 
> Can I perhaps use hplip for this purpose?
> If so, how?
> 

The respectie printer must be published on the server to be accessible on 
other hosts.

Helge