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Re: accessing printserver



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Matt Price wrote:
| hey folks,
|
| just bought a cheap SMC printserver/wireless router combination () for
| our home network.  I'm trying to figure out how to configure CUPS to
| print to an attached printer (Brother hl-1440). of course the manual
| only talks about windows, so it's not very informative.  Some quick
| googling suggests I need to use set a URL like the following in CUPS:
|
| lpd://192.168.2.1/L1
|
| where 192.168.2.1 is the router ip, and L1 is the name of a queue or
| something.  Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work -- the printer
| sork of groans and tries to print, but nothing's actually emitted.
| Has anyone managed to set up some printer to work with some
| printserver -- and do you have any hints?  Thanksm uch,
|
| matt

try lpd://192.168.2.1:515/L1

This sends to port 515 (print spooler according to /etc/services).

That is what works with my netgear printserver.


paul





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