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On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:15:31 +0000 Simon Waters wrote: > Richard Brown wrote: > > > > Hope everyone is well. Is it possible to set up my Ubuntu box to > > allow remote printing. More specifically, when I send a file to it, > > the contents are opened and printed, then closed again? > > Of course. > > These days people use CUPS to do remote printing, but one can use the > older printing protocols from the days of BSD Unix as well if you like > doing stuff the old fashioned way. > > CUPS supports IPP so it can share with other operating systems. > > Linux (or Unix) to Ubuntu, you add a printer to CUPS on the Ubuntu box > connected to the printer, and ensure that CUPS is configured to share > printers (it is by default on most distros), and then the clients > should find all the printers on the network. > > Most you should have to do is ensure the print server is listening on > port 631, and "browsable", and that the CUPS client knows the IP > address of the server (if it can't just discover it). > > If the remote client is on a different network you may have to > open/forward ports (631) in the firewall (from the clients address > only!), as well as telling the client which CUPS server to check. > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1831119 > Or create an SSH tunnel to the Ubuntu box with ports forwarded through that - saves having to open the ports up to all and sundry, and it's stupidly easy to do. :) Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html