HP P2015d Printer Sharing

Hi all,

At my workplace, we have HP P 2015d USB Printer and it is installed on a
local machine having Linux. I wish to share this printer with other users
who are on Windows Vista/XP.
The Cups config allows test printouts from local Linux machine but Windows
cannot seem to detect the printer. The printer is on ip 192.168.0.20

Previous Windows users path had http://192.168.0.15/printers/hp2015.
Please help me in this regard.

Thank you!

Lino

"Lino" wrote in message
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Hi all,

At my workplace, we have HP P 2015d USB Printer and it is installed on a
local machine having Linux. I wish to share this printer with other users
who are on Windows Vista/XP.
The Cups config allows test printouts from local Linux machine but Windows
cannot seem to detect the printer. The printer is on ip 192.168.0.20

Previous Windows users path had http://192.168.0.15/printers/hp2015.
Please help me in this regard.

Thank you!

Lino

Without any knowledge of Linux, I can only assume that it is not shared
correctly on the Linux PC since you say no Windows PCs can even 'see' it.
If there are other Linux PCs around, can they 'see' it?

--
Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/windows

On Apr 3, 1:38*pm, Lino wrote:
Hi all,

At my workplace, we have HP P 2015d USB Printer and it is installed on a
local machine having Linux. I wish to share this printer with other users
who are on Windows Vista/XP.
The Cups config allows test printouts from local Linux machine but Windows
cannot seem to detect the printer. The printer is on ip 192.168.0.20

Previous Windows users path hadhttp://192.168.0.15/printers/hp2015.
Please help me in this regard.

Thank you!

Lino

As with most *uxes style systems, you may need to add a separate
"protocol" in order for the Windows PC to see this printer. Look at
Samba.

On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:48:55 -0700, Cari (MS-MVP) wrote:


"Lino" wrote in message
newsan.2009.04.03.13.38.53.149000@invalidnowhere .com...

Hi all,

At my workplace, we have HP P 2015d USB Printer and it is installed on a
local machine having Linux. I wish to share this printer with other users
who are on Windows Vista/XP.
The Cups config allows test printouts from local Linux machine but Windows
cannot seem to detect the printer. The printer is on ip 192.168.0.20

Previous Windows users path had http://192.168.0.15/printers/hp2015.
Please help me in this regard.

Thank you!

Lino

Without any knowledge of Linux, I can only assume that it is not shared
correctly on the Linux PC since you say no Windows PCs can even 'see' it.
If there are other Linux PCs around, can they 'see' it?


Hi Cari, SM and Joel,

Many thanks for the response. Well, the Linux PC cannot be detected in
Windows network. Perhaps that could be one of the reasons why the printer
isnt being detected.
Apart from this the Samba config seems ok but I guess it needs to have a
symbolic link to the device file. BTW, what is URI all about? It shows
some long file location. Tried to give its path without success.

Regards,
Lino

smlunatick wrote:
On Apr 3, 1:38 pm, Lino wrote:
Hi all,

At my workplace, we have HP P 2015d USB Printer and it is installed on a
local machine having Linux. I wish to share this printer with other users
who are on Windows Vista/XP.
The Cups config allows test printouts from local Linux machine but Windows
cannot seem to detect the printer. The printer is on ip 192.168.0.20

Previous Windows users path hadhttp://192.168.0.15/printers/hp2015.
Please help me in this regard.

Thank you!

Lino

As with most *uxes style systems, you may need to add a separate
"protocol" in order for the Windows PC to see this printer. Look at
Samba.

This is incorrect, Windows can print to cups printers provided you use
the correct url. In your case it looks likely to be:

http://192.168.0.20:631/printers/hp2015

but you can browse the cups server from IE using the url:

http://192.168.0.20:631

to check this.

There is no need to install samba or anything else. You may need to
check that the linux server's firewall allows port 631 (cups) to pass
and that cups is also set up correctly to allow remote access (it
usually is by default).

H