[cups] Using a network enabled printer from a lappy

Daniel Miller dmiller at amfes.com
Sun Feb 28 14:44:09 PST 2016


"printer sharing" needs to be enabled on your "machine" and then try adding 
BrowsePoll printserverip:port to your laptop's cups-browsed.conf.


Daniel



On February 28, 2016 11:34:34 AM Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> Greetings all;
>
> Trying to make a network printer work from my lappy.
>
> It is addressed at a local network ipv4 address, and cups can see it, but
> its a brother (both are in fact) that needs its own ppd's from brother.
>
> I have them but no quick and dirty way to get them from this machine to
> the lappy, and finding Brothers ppd's on their site is a drag as they
> make the linux drivers everything but invisible.
>
> So, since its all on the same local 192.168.xx.yy network, how do I go
> about relaying the printjob to this machine, so that this machine then
> processes the job and prints it?
>
> And its a bit strange, I have another machine on this same local network
> as the printer, and I cannot find a mention of any printer except the
> default .PDF generator anyplace in the /etc/cups tree.
>
> But if I fire up a copy of the editor, geany and ask it to print a file,
> every printer available on this main machine, is available for use by
> that machine.  Ditto on 2 other machines of my local network, but not
> from the lappy.  Best I seem to be able to do is to see it, but the
> filter failed.
>
> Clues please.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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