Tony Ricena
December 15th, 2009, 11:36 PM
Hello everyone,
I installed Ubuntu Server edition 9.04 on an old Dell computer that I have to act as a Print Server for my LAN. I have a HP Photosmart p1000 connected via USB on the server and everything is set up correctly as far as I know. Local Computers (Kubuntu 9.04) add the printer with no problems, everything works great. The one thing though, I want to use my server for internet printing via CUPS. I went into my router and set a static IP address for my server and opened up appropriate ports via port forwarding for cups to that server. I even enabled DMZ to the server to make sure I am not forgetting anything. I want my father to add my local printer via ipp through the internet so he can print things via my printer that is directed to me. Its more for experimental purposes. Now for some reason, he is unable to connect to my printer when he adds it on his computer. We go through the motions and i have him set the new printer via IPP Cups in the add printer section, but it can never connect to my server. I make sure to give him the CORRECT IP address (ie the internet address not the LAN address) but we still cannot create a connection. Firewall on server is set up for this. We can do almost everything via remote (ie VNC from his computer to my server, ssh etc) but cannot for the life of me get this working. He can access my webmin:10000, my cups:631 http websites but we can't get the actuall printer connected via internet printing protocol. Has anyone ever attempted this, if so can I get some help? Could it possibly be a problem with my route tables? My LAN IP address are of course much different from Internet IP address. Any help would be great, thanks.
If you need any additional questions let me know.
I installed Ubuntu Server edition 9.04 on an old Dell computer that I have to act as a Print Server for my LAN. I have a HP Photosmart p1000 connected via USB on the server and everything is set up correctly as far as I know. Local Computers (Kubuntu 9.04) add the printer with no problems, everything works great. The one thing though, I want to use my server for internet printing via CUPS. I went into my router and set a static IP address for my server and opened up appropriate ports via port forwarding for cups to that server. I even enabled DMZ to the server to make sure I am not forgetting anything. I want my father to add my local printer via ipp through the internet so he can print things via my printer that is directed to me. Its more for experimental purposes. Now for some reason, he is unable to connect to my printer when he adds it on his computer. We go through the motions and i have him set the new printer via IPP Cups in the add printer section, but it can never connect to my server. I make sure to give him the CORRECT IP address (ie the internet address not the LAN address) but we still cannot create a connection. Firewall on server is set up for this. We can do almost everything via remote (ie VNC from his computer to my server, ssh etc) but cannot for the life of me get this working. He can access my webmin:10000, my cups:631 http websites but we can't get the actuall printer connected via internet printing protocol. Has anyone ever attempted this, if so can I get some help? Could it possibly be a problem with my route tables? My LAN IP address are of course much different from Internet IP address. Any help would be great, thanks.
If you need any additional questions let me know.