How to share printer via CUPS?

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#1

Hi all. I have 2 boxes both running suse. On the one with 10.2 version there is a printer hp laserjet 1020 installed and works ok. Now I would like to print to it from the secong pc, which runs on 11.1, so I added new class in cups web page of thre first pc and publihed the printer. But when I try to add new printer via cups on the second pc, it says the server with the specified ip con not be reached. I tried to stop firewall on both pcs, but still no success. I have no troubles with NFS file sharing between both pcs, so the printer sharing should work. How could i fix this. Thanks for your help.

#2

arcull wrote:
> Hi all. I have 2 boxes both running suse. On the one with 10.2 version
> there is a printer hp laserjet 1020 installed and works ok. Now I would
> like to print to it from the secong pc, which runs on 11.1, so I added
> new class in cups web page of thre first pc and publihed the printer.
> But when I try to add new printer via cups on the second pc, it says the
> server with the specified ip con not be reached. I tried to stop
> firewall on both pcs, but still no success. I have no troubles with NFS
> file sharing between both pcs, so the printer sharing should work. How
> could i fix this. Thanks for your help.

In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf change

Only listen for connections from the local machine.

Listen localhost:631

to:
Listen *:631

#3

I shared an HP 1020 from Linux to Linux using Cups and IPP. I wrote it up here:
Printer Sharing: Suse/openSUSE 10.x 11.x IPP Print Server for Linux & Windows Clients

#4

Thanks guys, I’ll try it when I get home :slight_smile:

#5

Uf, I still haven’t managed to make it work :frowning: I’ve followed the tutorial which swerdna offered and is very good indeed. I have setup the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and /etc/cups/mime.convs on the server side as suggested and can access the printer via http://192.168.1.10:631/printers/hp_laserjet_1020 from client and everything looks ok until you try to print something :), at that point cups on the client reports “/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip failed” and the printer status changes to “stopped, accepting jobs, published.” with all the jobs still in spooler. It doesn’t help if I try to start printer from cups and try to print again. Firewalls are temporary disabled on both sides. Any suggestion highly appreciated.

#6

Looks a bit like the driver is wrong. openSUSE’s driver for the HP1020 is wrong. Please describe how you installed the driver for the HP1020 on both the client and the server.

#7

Yes, I thought about driver as well. On the server I firstly tried to use foo2zjs driver from foo2zjs: a linux printer driver for ZjStream protocolfor my laserjet 1020, but the printer didn’t want to work with it, then I did install hplip from yast and run hp-setup as root, which made my printer work. While on the client I couldn’t run hp-setup, since printer is not connected to it and neither cups doesn’t support exactly my model number, so during adding printer on the client via cups, I selected the other option which If I remember correctly is “Import from ppd file” and selected the correct file from foo2zjs package. Would it maybe help if I connected the printer temporary to the client and run hp-setup, and then moved it back to the server, I mean just to get the right drivers installed. Or is any other way to find out which driver hp-setup works with and then select it in import “Import from ppd file” option. Thanks again for your exauhsting help.

#8

You can correctly install the driver to computers regardless of whether they have the printer attached if you follow the steps that I lay out here:
HowTo Install a HP LaserJet 1020 printer in Suse 10.x, 11.x
I had scrappy behaviour in Suse Linux 10.0 but no problems in 10.1,2,3 and 11.0,1. Try it, may be the problem.

#9

swerdna thanks, I’ll try as suggested and report back.

#10

Finally works :slight_smile: I did install the foo2zjs drivers as swerdna recomended on the client, and was after that able to select the exact model in cups. But there was still a little modification needed: on the sever I had to uncomment back the line “application/octet-stream application/vnd.cups-raw 0 -” in /etc/cups/mime.convs otherwise the printer rejected the print jobs. Thanks again to all who hellped me make my remote printing possible :slight_smile: