CUPS printer config

[bilal_jan]

Hello everyone
I have a machine running fedora core 8 ... and on that mchine i can see a printer (Samsung ML-1610) that is connected to another system on wh i am running ubuntu... i made it possible via

 http://localhost:631/admin 
  

but i wasnt able to print from my fedora machine
any idea how can i do that ...!!!
thanks

[waterhead]

You may need to go through the "Add Printer" routine on the Fedora CUPS server. Instead of using "localhost" in the address, use the actual IP address. For example, here is my address for a HP PSC 1200 on another PC. I am using the ipp protocol instead of the http protocol.

ipp://192.168.1.75:631/printers/psc_1200

[bilal_jan]

thanks waterhead for ur reply
I tried following in my firefox

ipp://192.168.1.2:631/printers/

but i am gettin following error

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (ipp) isn't associated with any program.

[waterhead]

You misunderstood me. You first must go to the CUPS server for your PC, then click the Add Printer button.

http://localhost:631/admin?OP=add-printer

On this first page you only enter the "human readable" things, like this example:

Name: Samsung_ML-1610
Location: Bedroom
Description: Laser Printer

Click the "Continue" button. Then you select the format for connecting to the printer. Ipp or http seem to be what you want to try. I have ipp for printers connected to another PC, and http for a printer connected to a print server.

Click "Continue" again. Here is where you enter the address to the printer. Since it is already configured on another CUPS server, use that name here, along with the correct IP address. It may look like this:

ipp://192.168.1.2:631/printers/Samsung_ML-1610

Now finish the new printer process, and print a test page.

Hope this helps.

[bilal_jan]

thanks waterhead for ur reply
i have done this all on my fedora machine .sadly its not working
i am starting to feel that may be i am missing some configurating on ubuntu machine.
could u please tell me that what configuration should be on ubuntu 8.10

[waterhead]

On the PC that the printer is connected to (Ubuntu?), you should open that CUPS server. On the "Printers" tab, find the printer that you are trying to connect to. Then click on the button under it titled "Publish Printer".

[bilal_jan]

thanks waterhead for ur reply.....
on my ubuntu system in i have a printer ML-1610 , whose Device URI is

Device URI: usb://Samsung/ML-1610

and that printer is working(i assured that by printing a "test page")
Also share published printers connected to this system is also checked... i have also published that printer!!!
on my fedora system i added printer

Device URI ipp://192.168.1.2:631/printers/ML-1610

now when i clicked "print test page" on my fedora system, initially i see a text message like this

ML-1610 "Connecting to 192.168.1.2 on port 631..."

but then after a while i got this error

"recoverable: Unable to connect to printer; will retry in 30 seconds..."

any idea what i am missing

[waterhead]

Do you have a firewall enabled? Disable it (both computers) and try again. Also, disable SELinux on the Fedora machine.

[bilal_jan]

on fedora my firewall is disabled...
on ubuntu i have opened the port 631 (as ubuntu comes with all ports blocked) by issuing following command

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p 0/0 -s 0/0 --dport 631 -j ACCEPT

now
netstat -an | grep "LISTEN"
on ubuntu gives

tcp6 0 0 :::631 :::* LISTEN

but still i am getting following error by firefox

The connection has timed out
The server at 192.168.1.2 is taking too long to respond.

[waterhead]

Are you positive that you are using the correct IP address? 192.168.1.2 doesn't seem like an address that a PC would have. To check, run this command on the PC that you want to check.

ifconfig