[olug] Printing Successes with Linux

[Thomas D. Williamson]

I have been playing with Linux for a while and only have worked on a  
few things successfully.  I had an old router/firewall with print  
server built in. When I originally used it, the print service was set  
up with windows clients, and there was no instructions for Linux. I  
had a laser printer I wanted to use and  I hooked it up to a Linux box  
with OpenSuSE 11.3 through the USB. It found what was needed to make  
it print, but I had trouble getting it to share with another Linux  
laptop. CUPS suggested that the firewall was preventing access to the  
port needed to enable the print process.

I started scanning for open ports on both machines and thought I was  
opening the right ones on them, but no printing happened. When I  
scanned the routers and other network attachments, I saw the router  
with the print server had port 515 open for access. Both Linux systems  
had this port open as a default. I then reassigned the printer to use  
the ldp URL for the printer server on the router, and this worked  
immediately through the router and the server.

This exercise let me get a bit better idea on what Linux can do and  
let anyone who wants to give it a try to get things done. Once I saw  
the port connection and what was needed in the printer information, it  
all made sense.

Tom Williamson

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