Issue adding printer to Debian
 

Hello all! I was hoping to get some help with a problem I am having. I just recently tried Debian. I am having issue's with setting up a printer on it and after looking for days on information and trying what I found I have yet to get this working.

What I want is to get my PIXMA Mx310 canon printer working on linux. Then share it on my network for my windows boxes. I am running the newest version of debian and only command-line, which has been really hard to use with the http://localhost:631/ to setup the printer.

The first thing: do you have cups installed? If you do then just point your browser at this url: http://localhost:631/. Check out the documentation about Cups. If you have no gui installed then you'd need something like lynx. Type in your terminal:
You may have to use sudo or run the command as root. First worry about setting up the printer on your machine and then deal with networking it next. I guess you'll need Samba to do that but I have zero experience with windows.
ciao,
jdk

OpenPrinting dot org is still down, but this might help:

http://mp610.blogspot.com/

Edit: If CUPS has trouble printing to the Canon, that is. I gather from what I've read here that Canons can sometimes be uncooperative with Linux.

Because you only have command line on that box, make it easier for yourself to see what you do.

On the server box, open /etc/cups/cupsd.conf as root and check these lines, change so they become this:

Restart cups: sudo /etc/init.d/cups restart

Now at least you should be able to access you server with a web browser not on the server itself: http://name.your.server:631

jlinkels

thnx!
 

@jdkaye
Yes I had installed cups and cups-client, and elinks to access the localhost:631, but after adding the printer it did not seem to work, mayb I added it wrong? Also I have samba working right now, well not as I want but it works ( i wanted one folder for all user not every users home folder being shared..anywho ill figure that out later)

@frankbell
I had noticed that most people said to look at openprinting and like you said it has been down. I will check that link you provided though right now ^.^

@jlinkels

yes one of the guys here at work mentioned doing that ( though as I am not at home right now I can't open port 80 for me to do that externally but if I keep having issue's getting this to work before I go home then I will try that out when I can! (currently I only have ssh allowed through my router to my box)

ssh -L 8080:localhost:631 your.host.athome
will open an ssh tunnel from your current machine to your box at home. It other words, it connects to your.host.athome, and redirects any traffic to itself at port 631, hence localhost:631.

After giving this command in a terminal window, start up your web browser on the machine at work, and got to
http://localhost:8080
You'll end up in your.host.athome:631.

Confusing as hell. If you want to access another host in your home network and you have to pass thru a gateway the ssh tunnel is like this:
ssh -L 8080:xotherhost:631 your.host.athome

Still you have to make the connection on the machine you are currently working on at work, leave the terminal alone and use your web browswer to localhost:8080

You can use the open ssh connection you have at that moment to edit the cups.conf file. WIthout the proper settings port 631 won't work of course.

jlinkels

So I'm home!
 

So I decided to try sane and it worked great seemingly.. after I finished installing it I set the Mx310 as the default printer and now when i make a print request
like cat file.txt | lp
I get this:

request id is Canon_MX310_series-5 (0 file(s))

this also happened to me yesterday when using cups with a driver I had installed...this leads me to believe I am missing something?