Brother DCP-7065dn printer with Fedora 19

[Fred Smith]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:40:31AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com>
> 
> | | From: Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
> | 
> | | Have you actually downloaded and installed (and configured, as needed)
> | | the drivers Brother provides? you don't actually say...
> | 
> | I think so.
> 
> I guess not.
> 
> I have now performed step 5b from
>   <http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public_s/id/linux/en/instruction_prn1a.html>
> and it now works!  Thanks for the prompting.
> 
> Note: the current web interface to CUPS doesn't exactly conform to 5b, but 
> with a little bit of guess-work, it worked.
> 
> I used HTTPS, not HTTP, to talk to CUPS.  Some things need to be secure.
> 
> When prompted for authorization, I used my username and password (hey, I'm 
> a member of the wheel group).  That didn't work.  I had to actually delete 
> a browser cookie to be able to try another username.  root was powerful 
> enough.  There ought to be a log-out button, but I didn't find one.
> 
> Although configurations are supposed to carry over when you upgrade using 
> fedup, this part didn't seem to.  Of course I might have damaged things 
> thrashing around.
> 
> I still don't know how to print from F18 using the printer driver on my 
> CentOS 5 box.  It looks as if the failed attempts were using IPP (Internet 
> Printing Protocol).  I don't care enough right now to keep experimenting.  
> But it would be handy so that I could print from machines that didn't have 
> the Brother proprietary drivers installed.

Is the device connected to your local LAN, or is it directly connected to
your computer? If it's on the LAN, I wouldn't bother with treating it as
a shared printer, just have each computer connect directly to it. Each
computer would then need the Brother drivers installed, but now that you
know how to do that it should be "simple" (for some values of "simple") :).

> 
> Thanks to all who helped.  It sure is nice to have my printer back.

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