Re: Printer share problems...please help before I call a shrink...

none wrote:

Hello people,

I am a relative newb to Linux in general, liking it indeed but with a
small and annoying problem...

I have an HP PSC2210 printer/scanner/fax attached to my SUSE SLED (10)
box,(usb connection) which works fine. It prints no problem and SLED
found it and installed the drivers no prob...

Downstairs I have a KUBUNTU box (6.1) with wireless access to the
network and internet. It works fine too... BUT...

I want to be able to print from Kubuntu box to upstairs printer HP2210
(ATTATCHED TO sled). How do I set this up on Both machines???

CUPS seems to be "up" on both machines (but maybe it isn't)

I need to know about firewall settings and whatever else I need to
allow kubuntu box to see HP printer atached to Suse sled box. This is
making me craaaaaazyyyy!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!

I found this easy to do in windows XP, but dont seem to be able to get
this to work in LINUX.

I have Suse 10.2 running on 2 PCs in a LAN with an HP2500 attached directly
to one of them and available for printing from both. I used Yast2 to set
both of them up. The situation is not identical to yours but this is what I
had to do:

On PC with printer attached to parallel port:
1) Install printer normally via Yast2.
2) Yast2 -> Hardware -> Printer -> Other (button bottom right) ->
Change Remote Access Settings -> make sure this is Enabled.
3) Yast2 -> Network Services -> Network Services -> make sure xinetd is
enabled and <printer> (i.e. the service) is ON.
4) Yast2 -> System -> System Services (Run Level) (Expert mode) and make
sure xinetd is running in the run levels 3 and 5.

On client PC:
1) Set up printer as a "Network printer" using a CUPS server.

HTH

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Les
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