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looksalot
2007-01-31, 06:17 PM CST
I have one box with a printer, and one without a printer networked thru a router.
I can ping and ssh both ways.
I can not get cups to print from the non-printer to has-printer.
Where can I get more info on remote printing without using cups?

looksalot
2007-02-01, 11:25 AM CST
SOLVED!
After hours of RTFM-ing, and hours of testing, the solution is a combination of -
in cupsd.conf adding line BrowseRelay 127.0.0.1 192.168.1.255 and
in web browser (http://localhost:631) Admin - marking Share Published printers connected to this system
then when printing - use printer@host
Now I'm not sure if the entry in cupsd.conf was necessary, but at this point I'm so releived that the thing works!

looksalot
2007-02-01, 06:45 PM CST
And Further -
As the CUPS Software Users Manual says -
"Networking

Printers and classes on the local system are automatically shared with other systems on the network. This allows you to setup one system to print to a printer and use this system as a printer server or spool host for all of the others. Users may then select a local printer by name or a remote printer using "name@server"."

After thinking about my earlier success, I went back to the no-printer machine and removed the BrowseRelay entry from cupsd.config, tested - ok, removed the printer I had set-up on the no-printer machine, tested - ok.
Now the default printer is the 'server' printer.
I don't know what I was doing wrong before I achieved success, but it is good to know (again) that the only real problem was operator error.