setting up network printer?

[X8ballX]

i am trying to be able to print from a laptop running Mandriva spring 2010 to my ubuntu 9.10 desktop that my printer is hooked up to with no luck. i have looked for many house but nothing i find seems to make any sense or does not help in my situation

[Dapper Dan]

This page pretty much takes it step by step. Once you get the Ubuntu print server going, open your printer utility in Mandriva and have it seek network printers. If you set your print server up correctly, Mandriva should find it. What type printer are you using? Can you print to it from the Ubuntu machine?

[X8ballX]

i have followed all the steps in the link you posted with no luck the printer i am useing is a PSC 1100 and yes i can print from my ubuntu machine but i cannot fimt the printer via system - administration - printers on my mandriva machine

[Dapper Dan]

In Ubuntu, when you open the print configuration utility, there is a check beside "Share Published printers connected to this system?" Has the print server been restarted after checking this if recently done?

sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart

[X8ballX]

yes that has all been done already

[Dapper Dan]

Can you post your cupsd.conf?

[X8ballX]

how do i do that?

[Dapper Dan]

From the command line:

sudo gedit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

Copy what's there and post it here please. I want to see it since I also ran into the exact same problem when running 9.10. The utility said the server was available for the network yet, the actual file did not reflect that. I had to make some minor changes to mine to get it seen as a network printer for other machines inside the network.

[X8ballX]

LogLevel warn
MaxLogSize 0
SystemGroup lpadmin
# Allow remote access
Port 631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
# Share local printers on the local network.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseRemoteProtocols
BrowseAddress @LOCAL
BrowseLocalProtocols CUPS dnssd
DefaultAuthType Basic
<Location />
  # Allow shared printing...
  Order allow,deny
  Allow @LOCAL
</Location>
<Location /admin>
  # Restrict access to the admin pages...
  Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Location /admin/conf>
  AuthType Default
  Require user @SYSTEM
  # Restrict access to the configuration files...
  Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Policy default>
  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job CUPS-Get-Document>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default CUPS-Get-Devices>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit All>
    Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  # Only the owner or an administrator can cancel a job...
  <Limit Cancel-Job>
    Order deny,allow
    Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
  </Limit>
</Policy>
<Policy authenticated>
  <Limit Create-Job Print-Job Print-URI>
  AuthType Default
  Order deny,allow
</Limit>
  <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job CUPS-Get-Document>
AuthType Default
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
  </Limit>
  <Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default>
  AuthType Default
  Require user @SYSTEM
  Order deny,allow
    </Limit>
  <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    Order deny,allow
      </Limit>
  <Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
      AuthType Default
      Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
      Order deny,allow
        </Limit>
  <Limit All>
        Order deny,allow
          </Limit>
</Policy>

is from my ubuntu 9.10 machine which has the printer connected via USB

[Dapper Dan]

My printer is accessible from all computers within my cups network. This is what I have in the corresponding places in yours.

# Enable printer sharing and shared printers.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all
BrowseAddress @LOCAL
BrowseAddress 192.168.1.*
DefaultAuthType Basic
<Location />
  # Allow shared printing...
  Order allow,deny
  Allow all
  Allow @LOCAL
  Allow 192.168.1.*
</Location>

Finding the ip address of your network is easily discernible by doing from the command line:

ifconfig

If your network runs IPs from say... 192.168.1.101 through 192.168.1.150 then you'd set your cups.conf just like what I have above. The thing is to add that "*" where the last set of numbers would be in the IP. If you want just the lappy to have print access, find its IP address and use it alone. Example: Lappy is 192.168.1.104:

# Enable printer sharing and shared printers.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all
BrowseAddress @LOCAL
BrowseAddress 192.168.1.4
DefaultAuthType Basic
<Location />
  # Allow shared printing...
  Order allow,deny
  Allow all
  Allow @LOCAL
  Allow 192.168.1.4
</Location>

I had the same problem and this fixed it for me. Not sure where I found it but give it a try. Remember to restart cups. Hope this helps...