On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:01 +0100, Samuel Penn wrote:
> From my desktop I can this and even go to:
>
> https://192.168.161.102:631/printers/XeroxDuplex
>
> And print a test page, and this works just fine.
>
> Printing from an application from the same desktop doesn't work
> however since I can't even see the printers listed.
Check that ServerName is set correctly in /etc/cups/client.conf on the
desktop; if the client.conf is missing, create one with a single
'ServerName' line:
http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.4/ref-client-conf.html
Many desktop installations (like the default Ubuntu install) set up a
full CUPS server locally, and then talk to network printers themselves
(discovering them via avahi). In that case, printers would disappear if
something went wrong with the networking/discovery of the printer - this
happened to me at work recently when we moved offices, and suddenly the
printer was on a different subnet to our desktops!
If that was the problem, then it should be possible to uninstall the
CUPS server from the desktop entirely (just leaving 'cups-client', in
Debian-speak).
If not... erm... check the logs on both the server and the desktop.
--
Tim Retout <tim@???>
