I have Suse 10 and I have a HP 6110 on it and it prints fine. As I have a home network I would like to set up the printer as a shared printer so that my other computers can print to it. How do I 'tell' Suse to share the printer? It seemed to be pretty easy in Red Hat but I can't seem to find out how to do it in Suse. I'm sure that I am (as usual) missing something very simple. Thanks.

Todd

It's been about 2 months since I've done it, but it's pretty straightforward with YaST. If you are only connecting printers to the one computer, set it up as a CUPS server. Then set all your other systems up as clients. Basically, with the one computer as a server, it broadcasts all the printers connected to it (I believe on port 691) and all the clients pick it up. It works really well. If you add more printers to your server, all the clients pick it up automatically and they also don't need the drivers locally installed for that printer. I'll see if I can find detailed procedures in my notes. In the meantime, the SuSE documentation did a pretty good job covering this I think.

Appreciate the response. I am having difficulty determining how to set up Suse as a CUPS server. I went all through Yast but I could not find any tool with which to do that. I looked through the documentation but all that I could find was info on setting up a local printer or setting up a network printer that was installed on another server, can't seem to figure on how to make this computer the print server and then share the printer. Thanks.

Todd

I may be confused on this but I believe when you configure your printer, cupsd server is enabled and port 631 on your firewall is also open. I'm in the process of building a second box to experiment with LAN configuration so I haven't set up the other box with a client. If you go into YaST and look at services, you will see CUPS is enabled.

I found a little info about it. I'm still workin on it myself.
Go to Root shell and type "lppasswd -a root" this will let you create a root account for your CUPS server.
Go to web browser and type "localhost:631" and login w/ the account you just created in your shell.
Check out Admin / Manage Printers to see if your printer is there.

That should at least get you to where I am.

I did as crazibri suggested. I knew about localhost:631 but didn't know how to set a password -- now I do -- Thanks. My printer, a HP PSC 1410 is working correctly and got to see what I expected. Interesting though, this method listed a full bleed printing mode I don't remember seeing with YaST.

I posted something on the SuSE Linux Forum at:

http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/in...opic=31346&st=

I hope this helps. Let me know if it works. It's basically how I have mine setup.

OK, I got to the CUPS web based admin and found my printer on there but I see nothing in there that allows me to 'share' the printer. Should I even be looking for something like that?

If I'm not mistaken, permeations and group membership are the controlling factor as they are for everything else. By default all users are members of group lp. The PC with the printer is the cups server and all others are clients. Access is via host/IP and port 631 that cups uses.

Leupi,

Did you check(i.e. click on) the link I posted a few days ago? You don't need to use the web based admin tool for CUPS in SuSE. You can set everything up through the print manager. The person I responded to on that post got everything working a.o.k. with the directions I posted. Hope it helps you.

I did not have KDE installed so I installed it (is there a way to do what you are describing via Gnome?). When I tried to access the 'print server' tab in 'Printing Manager' I got the message:

How can I tell if the CUPS server in installed and running in SUSE 10?

Thanks

I think that I must have screwed something up. When I try to use the CUPS web interface I get the message:
It work a day or two ago...

Sorry. Didn't realize you weren't running KDE. Here are two ways to check what services are running.

From a Konsole (login as root):

That will list all services and show whether they are on or off. The GUI way is to:

K Menu -> System -> Control Center (YaST)

After you launch YaST, go to:

System -> System Services (Runlevel)

You can start the services from there. Let me know what you find.

I did as you suggested and saw that the CUPS printer daemon is enabled. I tried again to use the web browser to access the CUPS server with the address:
localhost:631
but again I got the message:
I appreciate the help. I really do need to get this printer issue taked care of. Thanks.

Todd

Is your Firewall setup to allow IPP client and IPP server services?

Go to:

YaST -> Security and Users -> Firewall -> Allowed Services

Make sure you have IPP Client and IPP Server in the list.