HP P2015d Printer Sharing

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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
 
Lino said:
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
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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 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
Click to expand...

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.
 
Lino said:
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
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I don't do Linux to know what's capable of, but in general you may want to
start with something like.

1. Set the Linux to allow the printer to be SHARED (and network too?)

2. Installing the printer to any wireless computer you want to use the
printer. That's about it and it should work
 
smlunatick said:
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.
Click to expand...

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
 
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