Printer Issue

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 21:18 -0700, Richard Wilson wrote:
> All,
> 
> This may be a Windoze issue, but perhaps someone can give me some
> insights...
> 
> I have an Epson Stylus CX5400 printer/scanner combination device
> attached (via USB) to my Linux workstation running Fedora Core 3 (which
> I keep up to date).  The printer works fine with Fedora, which came with
> the necessary drivers for that specific model.
> 
> In order to share the printer with my work laptop and my wife's laptop,
> (both running Win XP) I first defined the Epson as a shared IPP printer
> to which my work laptop was able to establish a connection.  that is, in
> the XP printer set up I told it the IPP printer definition and it found
> it.  I then went on to tell Windows that the printer was an Epson CX5400
> and it found the necessary drivers for it and appeared happy.
> 
> When I tried to print to it though, the XP system ground almost to a
> halt and didn't print anything.
> 
> I was able to get the setup working by deleting the IPP definition and
> creating a Samba print queue, and I can now print from both XP systems.
> 
> This is perhaps my third or fourth serious foray into Samba and as I
> have to fight Windoze bigots frequently, I'd prefer not to cater to
> Windows in any way and go with a more standards based solution...
> 
> Any ideas from anyone as to why the IPP piece didn't work?
----
out of the box - cups will not allow other computers to print to it.
Samba gets around that because when you print via samba, the print job
is transferred to the computer via Samba and it then becomes a local
print job and cups likes local print jobs.

Generally, all you need to do is to edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to allow
from your subnet (and of course any firewall rules must be adjusted
accordingly).

Craig