printing over household wireless router network

[David Keen]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 05:52, Jon Savage wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 01:01:57 -0300, Trevor Smith <trevor at haligonian.com> wrote:
> > On September 21, 2004 12:17 am, Steven Stern wrote:
> > 
> > > On WinXP, open ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS from the control panel, click on the
> > > Windows Componets on the left, and select Other Network File and Print
> > > Services.  Select Print Services for UNIX.
> > 
> > yeah, as I figured, when I go to 'add printer' on her XP machine, it says
> > browse or type in the address, either in the form \\server\printer or
> > http://server/printer/.printer
> > 
> > Neither of the latter two are familiar to me, browse didn't find anything, and
> > I suspect that for \\server\printer to work, I'd have to have some sort of
> > peer-peer networking between the two machines (there is none). This leaves
> > the http solution but I don't have a clue where I'd find a ".printer" file...
> > 
> AFIK
> either you attach the printer to your LT & set her up as a samba user
> (or) attach the printer to her machine, share the printer from win**
> and access as smb  printer...
> I have done this on my subnet & it  'just works'. Certainly there are
> other ways to make this work <but>  worj\kes for me(tm),
> bests
> JS

1. In Fedora, set up a generic raw printer queue.
2. Share the printer.
3. In Windows, add printer, selecting “Connect to a printer on the
Internet”, and using a URL of
http://hostip:631/printers/RawPrinterQueueName. Select the printer
driver for this printer as you would for a locally connected printer.
4. You may need to open TCP port 631 in your firewall.


-- 
David Keen <zen46443 at zen.co.uk>