Re: Using cups remotely?
Alan Chandler wrote:
>On Tuesday 29 August 2006 21:07, Bruno Buys wrote:
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>>I have two networked sarge machines. One is printing successfully via
>>cups to a paralel hp printer. How do I set up the other machine to use
>>this one remotely, preferably as default?
>>Links/howtos/threads also accepted :)
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>If you set up cups on both machines, they should talk to each other and
>discover what printers are available. I used to have a debian sarge box
>(just recently upgraded to etch) with a printer on it, and a debian unstable
>workstation running kde. It just sees the other printer.
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>I have also told the main cupsys on the (ex) sarge box to also recognise a
>windows printer which has been "shared" by my wife on here windows computer.
>SO my workstation can also print to that .
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>Get started here http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html
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cups is already installed on both computers, but they don't seem to be
able to talk by themselves, as you say.
The one which will print remotely has no printer added, and I have to
add a new one. The problem is, I don't seem to be able to match the
correct URI for the remote printer.
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