Re: Network Printer Offline?

[Donald Spoon <dspoon@astcomm.net>]

Thomas H. George,,, wrote:
> Main computer is Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel connected through a Linksys 
> Wireless Point Router to a DSL modem.  Printer is HP Deskjet 940c 
> installed with CUPS.  KDE System print manager says its URI is 
> ipp://Phoenix:631/printers/lp.  (Phoenix has nothing to do with software 
> of that name; I named the computer Phoenix because I have rebuilt it so 
> many times.)
>
> Laptop (my grandson's, not mine) is an IBM Thinkpad, Windows XP with an 
> Actiontec Wireless USB Adapter.  Windows XP Add Printer cannot find the 
> Phoenix printer though it has no trouble connecting to the internet 
> through the Router.
>
> A third computer can be booted up in Windows ME with the Actiontec 
> Wireless USB Router.  In this case Add Printer reports the Phoenix 
> printer is offline.
>
> As far as I know, the Phoenix printer should be online.  It prints 
> documents from KDE and there is a line
>
>    printer stream tcp nowait lp /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd cups-lpd
>
> at the end of inetd.conf.
>
>    I am still new at getting all of this set up so perhaps I have missed 
> something crucial.  Any suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> Tom George

To enable CUPS for the network, I had to change two thing in the default 
 Debian CUPS server setup :

1.  enable "browsing" and identify my network IP range as "allowed" to 
browse.
2.  Add my printer to the "resources" section of the Security section of 
the server config.

Initially I could do this all from within the KDE printer setup wizzard, 
but with recent versions of CUPS and/or KDE I have had to make these 
modifications by editing the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file by hand.  The 
changes I make in the Wizzard don't seem to "take".  This is probably a 
result of my weird combination of testing and unstable here.  You might 
want to dig into the cupsd.conf docs before you try this.

Cheers,
-Don Spoon-