I have been told that you can setup cups to listen to port 9100 like a working AppSocket (raw) printer.

I have been looking for some way to do this for days now and no luck... i have found 3rd party tools but none have worked for me ( ppf - Printer Port Forwarder for example )

i wish the printer connected to my routers usb port to print via port 9100 or some other using CUPS.

Is there really a way to do this? or is this just a myth?


Hope somebody knows,
Willy

No. I use a 'networked printer' from cups;

# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
# Written by cupsd on Sun 25 Dec 2005 11:22:21 AM EST
<DefaultPrinter HP-5650> <-- use your printer(s) ppd file(s)
Location
DeviceURI socket://192.168.49.100:9100 <-- use your routers IP here
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>

All done via the cups web interface; http://localhost:631

Yes thank you, but i meen is there a way to configure my linux router (with cups) to share its printer via por 9100 to other computers.

The client config i can do easy, but the server config is something that i am not sure can be done with just cups.

for example my routers ip address ( the router that has the printer plugged in to its usb port (/dev/usb/lp0) is 10.0.0.1.

My client machine is 10.1.0.1, and i wish to use the printer on 10.0.0.1 via por 9100 as i would any jetdirect print server.

I was told i can configure cups to do so but i have not found any way to do it if its true.

Thanks ^_^

Figured it out! anybody interested in knowing how, pm me.

Since theres no info on it out there.. i guess its a secret or something..

OK, I'm glad......

Let me guess...... you changed your system's IP address or netmask since 10.1.0.1 and 10.0.0.1 are not on the same subnet. And/or the port was not 9100 but something else.