[ale] printer support in router

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Monday 21 April 2003 11:19 am, Dow Hurst wrote:
> If the router has port 631 open or the port of your choice open to some
> incoming IPs.  those incoming IPs can send print jobs in via CUPs.  What
> you do is to set the browsepoll keyword on the clients running CUPs so
> they will query the IP specified for a CUPs server.  The CUPs server
> must have those clients IPs allowed to send jobs in to it.  So
> BrowsePoll is needed and some permissions settings.  This is not a very
> secure situation and needs a VPN really,

Well, in my case we are all behind the firewall so it shouldn't be 
necessary to open up any ports, or whatnot.

The router's printerport is supposed to work fine with Windows; I'm just 
trying to figure out what it does and whether it will work with Linux.

Michael

> Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> >I'm looking for a way for my wife and me to share a printer and ran
> > across a broadband router with a printer port.  Anyone know how these
> > work?  Of course, the docs say you must have Windows of Mac, but who
> > reads docs.
> >
> >Can I just use, say, CUPS and tell it that it has a network address?
> >Anyone using one of these?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Michael
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