Setting up DCp-7040 as newtwork printer

[Helge Blischke]

tj wrote:

> I am trying to get a Brother DCP-7040 printer working as a networked
> printer. I had it working on this system and moved it to another Linux
> system to use a as networked print. It works on the "server". SO I set it
> for shared on te server and now I cannot get the "client" to find it. It
> doses not find it as a networked printer so I do a manual new printer. I
> tell it use /usr/share/ppd/DCP7040.ppd as hat file and for network I use
> ipp ipp://192.168.1.206/printer/DCP7040 which is the printers name.
> 
> However, when I attempt to send a test page I get the error
> "Unable to get printer status (Bad Request)"
> 
> Whats happening?
> 
> tj

You should specify the printer as 
ipp://server_s_ip_or_name:631/printers/DCP7040

Helge