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Re: Linux Printer Sharing




On Sep 15, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 the mental interface of
ArcticFox told:


On Sep 15, 2007, at 3:12 PM, ArcticFox wrote:

I can't seem to find the right printer driver to use. There's on on my Linux machine that works perfectly, but I don't have that driver on my mac
and I can't find it online. The closest I can get is ' HP PhotoSmart
P1100, CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.5' but that doesn't work. The printer's a
Photosmart 7450.

OK, I found a foomatic printer driver that's the same one I'm using on my Linux machine and installed it on my mac. I setup the printer through the Printer Setup Utility as the CUPS web-interface wouldn't find the driver I installed, however when I try and print I get the message 'Connecting to 10.0.0.150:631' then after a while it drops into 'Network host '10.0.0.150' is busy...' and just stays there. My host computer isn't doing /anything/
other than waiting for stuff to print.

This is giving me a headache...

You don't need a driver on a cups client! Make sure
"ServerName CupsServer" is mentioned in your client.conf, which
should be in /etc/cups on your MAC as well.

If I don't have a driver, my computer doesn't think it's a real printer.

Next make sure, in your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on your CupsServer
"Listen 631" is mentioned.

Thats it.

Elimar

Ok, I've done that. However if I don't have a driver for my Mac I can't even select the printer when I'm trying to print something.



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