On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 17:43 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:22:18 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:50 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
Ok, here is the deal. Configure all the printers on the server. On the clients do no configuration at all ,none. And you will be able to print to all the printers.
This used to be the case. Unfortunately, starting with Fedora 9, the minimum that is now needed on the clients has changed from "none" to:
- enable Network Printing Client (IPP) packets through the firewall by
selection System->Administration->Firewall, selecting the "Network Printing Client (IPP)" check-box and clicking Apply.
WOW!! What a difference! I did that on machine #2 (only, so far).
When I click on Printers, I see what the machine thinks are *nine* : my wife's downstairs is there twice, once as itself and once with "-fax" appended to it. All the other seven are my one machine, once as default with my name for the machine it's on, but no IP; the others have either an IP or some other indication where they are; I'm seeing it double on #1 (as default and not), and double on #4 (with its same correct IP both times, not together); sometimes it shows as published, sometimes not.
I tried to print the router's table, with IP and MAC numbers, from a browser (Konqueror, despite the fact i run Gnome); but it just asked me if the printer were connected.
Iiuc, I should go do the same on the other two clients (machine #3 and #4, no printer attached), but *not* on #1, which does have the printer, and must therefore be acting as the server. Right?
Not necessarily. This case is somewhat special. Are you saying you want that printer available to all the client machines. To do that you need to read very carefully the document on the web interface concerning configuring cupsd.conf. Otherwise , you probably will not to be able to print to that printer from the machine it is attached to. If you tell me it is printing to that machine as well as the other machines you have lucked out. -- ======================================================================= We totally deny the allegations, and we're trying to identify the allegators. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net