just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

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does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

frederikk 30 Apr 2008 07:37

Hi, i just got a small question…. does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?
I'm not talking aout inistalling cups… and seeing the printers, i'm talking about really printing with this printer from another host, especially a windows host ?

I'm asking because i am not a linux expert, and with quite a lot of time and after many problems, i manage to install cups. I manage to see my printer on cups… but no way to share it to my windows desktop… Even the print test page returns me an error : "postscript not supported"…
There are few posts about that, but except from one i see nobody manages to print something… :( ( someone manage to print a pdf but it takes an hour…. ). I only want to share my printer just as i do with a windows share… but i would appreciate not to have to start my desktop just to print a paper sheet…

So, does someone ever manage to do this ? ( Because if nobody does it, i certainly won't be the one due to my skills on linux… :( ).

Ciao
Fred

Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

redbullmonsta 30 Apr 2008 14:26

http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-48491/i-got-cups-working-despite-of-the-guard-error

Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

frederikk 30 Apr 2008 16:16

Ok. I'm the last people posting on this thread. I saw this. But in this post, people only manage to get cups working… but nobody said it manages to print really with that ! As i said, oonly one personn manage to print a pdf and it took him half an hour or even more…
I bought the MBWE in order to use it as a print server or even easier : just to share via samba an usb printer with my laptop computer… But it seems that i made a mistake… :( in fact no one really manage to do this :(

Ciao
Fred

Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

meb_web 14 Jul 2008 21:35

I also didn't find a confirmation that it works, therefore some feedback on what I did to make it work in order to print from XP.

My printer is connected to the USB port of the MB:
[root@MyBookWorld cups]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04a9:1094 Canon, Inc. PIXMA iP3000x Printer

The MB is connected via a cable to my wireless router. I am using Windows XP on a laptop, which uses the wireless router to connect to the MB, and I can print in raw mode from my XP laptop, as if I would be printing from a local printer.

Steps taken that are described elsewhere on this site:

- restore the gnu compiler

- download the cups software - I first took the latest version and tried to compile. This did not work, and when going back to the posting it was described which version to take (RTFM, I told myself …)

- compile and configure the cups soft; indeed takes some time

- create in the cups webinterface a raw printer for the Canon:
Canon_iP3000_USB_1
Description: Canon iP3000
Location: Local Printer
Printer Driver: Local Raw Printer
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
Device URI: usb://Canon/iP3000

- In Windows XP I used "Add Printer" to add a new network printer, selecting "Connect to a printer on the Internet", and using a URL of https://192.168.1.4:631/printers/Canon_iP3000_USB_1. I selected the printer driver for this printer as I would for a locally connected printer. The ip address 192.168.1.4 should be replaced with the one of your MB and the "Canon_iP3000_USB_1" is the queue name defined in the cups webinterface.

This does it.

Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

yoshers 19 Jul 2008 04:35

I can confirm what meb_web did is basically correct. For me and my HP Deskjet 990c, I had to take a few extra steps as the default drivers from the cups install from source caused the "postscript not supported" error that frederikk experienced.

Here is the basic overall steps I took:

1. Restore GCC compiler
2. Download and install cups from source
3. [Extra] Download and install foomatic-filters from source (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/Foomatic)
4. Create via the cups interface a PPD printer (I think this is where the steps you take will "depend" on your printer)

a) You might get lucky and the built in drivers in cups will work
b) You might need to download the appropriate PPD file (also from http://www.linuxfoundation.org) and install it via the web interface
c) You might need to do something else (like make it a Local Raw Printer…which I tried but my experience was that the web interface and cups daemon were hung up)

5. In Windows XP, add an internet printer - https://**YOURIP**:631/printers/**YOURPRINTER**

I know how much work it took me to basically grab info from a bunch of sources (many of which are spread out on this site), so I will try to check in/answer questions on this thread and maybe if I have a lot of free time, I will write a how-to.

Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

frederikk 19 Jul 2008 09:14

I can confirm that i manage to share my printer via the MBWE. But hard to say how, i tried so many things… i think thaht if i loose my conf. i will not be able to put it back… hoping that it won't happen.

The fact is that after i manage to share it, everytime i powered off my MBWE, atfer booting up the printer was disabled. Had to go to the graphical web console to enable it back, until i found the cupsenable command line. Then i put a script in the /etc/rc3.d directory to enable it after each reboot…
Be careful to verify your printer is enabled in the cups graphical web panel.

Ciao
Fred

Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

TeinturMan 19 Jul 2008 22:55

Hi all, I succeeded to print from my xp computer !
This is my additional notes, :
I followed the Official Tutorial , installed cups via ipkg, changing he cupsd file , generating the ssl certificate, then have the guard error.
Then, i followed the http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/forum/t-48491/i-got-cups-working-despite-of-the-guard-error post, using the 1.3.7 version of cups :
wget http://www.cups.org/software.php?VERSION=1.3.7&FILE=cups/1.3.7/cups-1.3.7-source.tar.gz

i had to do a ldconfig command after the make install command.
i have also used the /opt/etc/cups/cupsd.conf file that i have copied in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

i have replaced "Deny from All" with " Deny from None" .

Then i have applied meb_web solution to declare a raw printer and configure the XP Printer …
And it works nicely !
==> I will try to put all that together and update the original Tutorial in the main page…
frederikk, could you post your startup script ? Thanks in advance…

Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

TeinturMan 19 Jul 2008 23:32

Hi all,
i have updated the
http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/print-server
Print server tutorial.
Please, let me know if i have forgotten anything…and let us know if you are successfull using the tutorial.

Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

antieshay 24 Jul 2008 13:32

I have HP photosmart 7450 and 8250, but I could not find the drivers from the supported lists.

Am I out of hope?

Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

frederikk 24 Jul 2008 15:34

My canon MP150 is not in the printers list. But if it accept RAW format, it should be good. You have to find its drivers for windows only, where you will connect this shared printer.

Ciao
Fred

Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

antieshay 24 Jul 2008 16:18

"where you will connect this shared printer." ??

Connect to MBWE and used by my XP and Vista NBs.

Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

frederikk 25 Jul 2008 12:46

Excuse my sentence was bad… english is not my mother language… this was not a question.
If your printer is ok with RAW format, it should work.

Ciao
Fred

Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

stark 25 Jul 2008 14:24

Hi,

I got cups working, but when i try to print the file is Stopped, why?

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Re: just a small question : does someone manage to share printers with the MBWE ?

frederikk 26 Jul 2008 14:47

Hi,

sorry for posting late.
In fact to enable the printer when cups starts, i added those two lines :

sleep 10
/usr/sbin/cupsenable CanonMP150

in the cups script in /etc/init.d. So at the boot when the script starts cups, it enables the printer too.

case $1 in
start | restart | reload)
if $IS_ON cups; then
if test "$pid" != ""; then
kill -HUP $pid
else
prefix=/
exec_prefix=/usr
/usr/sbin/cupsd
sleep 10
/usr/sbin/cupsenable CanonMP150
if test $? != 0; then
$ECHO_FAIL
$ECHO "cups: unable to $1 scheduler."
exit 1
fi
fi
$ECHO_OK
$ECHO "cups: ${1}ed scheduler."
fi
;;

Of course you have to put the name of YOUR printer instead of the CanonMP150 which is mine… You have to put the exactly same name as your printer is known in cups.

Ciao
Fred

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