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[Branta]

How do I network my wife's computer to mine so she can print etc?

Both computers ping each other. cups & foomatic are merged of course.

I tried emerge nfs with no joy.


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Bob

[maloo38]

Branta,

To share your printer you don't need nfs just cups.

This is what I did,

1. install cups on both machines
2. Run the command on both machines
# rc-update add cupsd default
3. On the machine which has the printer attached. I did
A. Run the command
# /etc/init.d/cupsd start
B. Add a printer to cups then
Create a class for the printer being shared via webbrowser
with the url:
http://localhost:631
(KDE seems to only be able to access remote classes).
C. Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf Changing

#</Location>

<Location />
Encryption IfRequested
Satisfy All
Order deny,allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>

TO

#</Location>

<Location />
Encryption IfRequested
Satisfy All
Order deny,allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.200.*
</Location>

and you would replace 192.168.200.* with your network

D. Run the command
# /etc/init.d/cupsd restart


4. On the remote machine add a printer to cups by
A. Run the command
# /etc/init.d/cupsd start
B. Add the printer using webbrowser with following url
http://localhost:631
A. Select Manage Printers
B. Select Add printer
C. Enter a name
D. For Device select
Internet Printing Method (http)
E. For Device URI enter
http://192.168.200.2:631/classes/XXXX
Changing 192.168.200.2 to the ip address of the machine the
printer is attached to and XXXX is the class you had created

Hope this helps
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Cheers

maloo38

Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps please

[fleed]

You don't really need the cups daemon to be running on the client machine. Just edit /etc/cups/client.conf and add the server name to it and you'll be able to see everything that's on the server. I think that's better since you're not really managing any printers locally, only fwding requests to the cups server.