Re: accessing printserver
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:56:12AM -0500, 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,
>
Here's another URL to try, this one for an older SMC barricade non-wireless
router: URI: lpd://smc001:515/lp . (I have smc001 defined in my /etc/hosts)
Dunno if this will work with newer SMC stuff, but it's worth a try.
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