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printer sharing overly complicated

Asked by JohnG

Feisty printer sharing was a model of simplicity - "Detect LAN Printers" and "Share Printers". Gutsy printer sharing should be as simple. I have not yet figured out how to share printers on a LAN using gutsy.

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Best Artem Popov (artfwo) said : 		#1

Hi!

In Gutsy, you should go to System->Administration->Printing, then select "Server options" from the listbox to the left.

Then you can check the corresponding checkboxes, like "Share published printers", but you need to make sure that a printer you want to share is "Shared" (see Policies tab after selecting the printer from the listbox to the left)

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JohnG (jwgraddy-valornet) said : 		#2

This seems to have solved the problem. However, the fist two times that I tried to print on the Gustsy system from the Feisty system, I got the following message:

Error Printing
Too many failed attempts

Thanks for the help

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Hilary Wright (dreamstogo) said : 		#3

Hi,

I have installed Gutsy on all my local LAN PCs. I configured the PC with the printer attached to share the printer in the Policies section, as described above; on the clients I configured to listen for shared printers.

I had no luck at all!

Remembering that I had to change the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file manually in the past, I decided to take a look here,

Here is the section concerned,

<Location />
  # Allow shared printing...
  Order allow,deny
  Allow 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
  # Allow @LOCAL

I added the line "allow 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0"
and disabled "Allow @LOCAL"

This is how it was set up in Fiesty.

I restarted cups with

sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

went to the client machines Administration -> Printing

and Hey Presto the remote printer is now displayed.

Just to be sure it works I printed a document from OpenOffice. Worked great!

I hope this little tip helps.

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bobbyshafter (norman-bobbymatthews) said : 		#4

My fix finally, hope this help someone .
I uncommented "Allow shared printing"
and commented "Allow@local"
I then restart cups using hilary instruction
Enter 'http://localhost:631/admin,check share published printer,click on change setting.

The remote printers now show up