Re: accessing printserver

From: Dave Thayer (X0506200.lists.dmthayer_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 03/03/05

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    On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:56:12AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
    > hey folks,
    >
    > just bought a cheap SMC printserver/wireless router combination () for
    > our home network. I'm trying to figure out how to configure CUPS to
    > print to an attached printer (Brother hl-1440). of course the manual
    > only talks about windows, so it's not very informative. Some quick
    > googling suggests I need to use set a URL like the following in CUPS:
    >
    > lpd://192.168.2.1/L1
    >
    > where 192.168.2.1 is the router ip, and L1 is the name of a queue or
    > something. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work -- the printer
    > sork of groans and tries to print, but nothing's actually emitted.
    > Has anyone managed to set up some printer to work with some
    > printserver -- and do you have any hints? Thanksm uch,
    >

    Here's another URL to try, this one for an older SMC barricade non-wireless
    router: URI: lpd://smc001:515/lp . (I have smc001 defined in my /etc/hosts)
    Dunno if this will work with newer SMC stuff, but it's worth a try. 

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