and in MCC > hardware, > printer,> > > cups configuration, did you allow auto Cups Configuration? James ought to spec the IP number of the one box with the printer attached, and not do "auto" config I just think James ought give up one the winboxen-printerserver <grin>
> Do you have your systems set to automagically share their printers over the > network? If so, what is happening is that the linux boxes with no local > printer are attempting to share the network printer back to the box hosting > the printer. So essentially each computer is trying to share the network > printer with all the other computers, which is why you have so many "ghost > printers" showing up that still work to print to. > > Another way to look at it: Computer 1 is sharing its printer with computers > 2 and 3. Computers 2 and 3 see the network printer. Computers 2 and 3 also > try to share their printers, which just so happens to be the network > printer, with the other computers. Since Computer 1 does not recognize > either of these shared printers as actually being its own printer, it goes > ahead and makes them available locally. Therefore, if you print to one of > the "remote" printers from computer 1, the print job goes from computer 1 > to computer 2 or 3, then back to computer 1 before it hits the printer. > > The only computer that should be running printer sharing is the one acting > as the printer host, that is, the computer local to the printer. All the > other computers *should not* have printer sharing turned on. > > I'm not quite sure where you change this setting at since I'm not using > Mandrake 9, but it should clear up the problem of the local printer showing > up as a remote printer repeatedly. > > Hope this helps! > > Jon 8^) yep that's correct, we were wondering just where that setting is best changed. I just think James ought give up one the winboxen-printerserver <grin> > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/10/03 01:51PM >>> > > Wondering one thing. If this is related to something I've noticed on my > systems here. I've got a single printer and multiple linux boxes. So > what happens is that box one a windows box has the printer local. Box 2 > 3 and 4 all do remote printing... So far so good.. Except each box has 3 > printers 2 are the remote printers listed as remote cups printers, which > are actually the other Linux boxes on the net and 1 is the real > printer. No Matter what I do I cannot remove the remote cups printers > (even though the one on the windows box is a remote samba print.) If I > do somehow manage to remove them... it get "auto" restored later on. IF > I don't specify the samba printer as the default all over the place I > can have this same time problem. At the office it's all linux boxes and > 1 has the printer 5 others do remote, and yes even the box that has the > local printer refuses to release those remote printers from it's > database. Again I have to make sure I connect a default all over the > box. Funny part is ... I can print to any one of them...... just takes > longer. > > James > > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 06:48, et wrote: > > hmmm, in hosts, is localhost defined? and in MCC > hardware, > printer,> > > cups configuration, did you allow auto Cups Configuration? or does it > > have an IP or name? maybe the easiest _answer_ would be to remove the > > current cups printer and then "add new printer" but that sounds so > > mickysoft.
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