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[Nooblet0218]

i know i thought this has been answered in other places but for some reason all of the passwords i've found through google and the forum search aren't working.

I want to share a printer connected to my puppy machine to a windows 7 machine on my network, the setting looks like its there in the cups administrator page and I check it then click change settings but i get prompted for a username/password and everything i've tried does not work.

i've tried:

root
woofwoof

woofwoof
root

I've changed my password using 'passwd root' in terminal and then trying that, tried a lot of different ones after changing it and nothing is working.

all of the suggestions i've seen haven't worked.

any help would be greatly appreciated

[rcrsn51]

Which Puppy are you using?

[Nooblet0218]

I am using lupu 5.01

and also thanks for this: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42703

thats the printer i'm trying to share and that .pet helped me get the scanner running

[Nooblet0218]

while you're here, would it be easy to share the scanner as well? i haven't googled it yet but i'm just wondering

[nitehawk]

Well,...it's been awhile for me,...but if I can remember, it was something like:
puppylinux
woof woof
(that was up through Puppylinux 4.30)

[Nooblet0218]

ah i tried

puppy linux/puppylinux
woof woof/woofwoof

and all mixes of that and no luck

[rcrsn51]

Lupu is not my regular Puppy, but I tested it and could not find a login/password that worked. This problem has already been reported but I couldn't find a solution in the forum.

However, I found two solutions that look good.

1. Downgrade to CUPS 1.3.11 from here. Just install items 1,2 and 5. (Whenever I try the newer CUPS 1.4, I find something wonky about it.)

You can declare a printer shareable with the usual "root/woofwoof" login.

2. Stay with CUPS 1.4 but manually edit the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf as follows:

Change Line 19 from "Listen Localhost:631" to "Port 631"

After Line 22, insert the line "BrowseAddress @LOCAL"

After Line "<Location />, insert the line "Allow @LOCAL"

Then restart CUPS with the command: /etc/init.d/cups restart

[rcrsn51]

[Nooblet0218]

i used the backend .pet, with the Canon mp470 version, worked like a charm

And I used the first solution, downgrading the CUPS version.

That worked well! i'm able to share it to my ubuntu running desktop down the hall. but i'm having a bit of trouble getting the windows 7 laptop to see the printer. All of the autodetect settings aren't working so i'm trying to find it using tcp/ip.

The ip/port that my ubuntu computer says my printer is on is 192.168.1.7:631

so i put that into the w7 printer wizard, i selected the canon mp 470 driver, but i cannot print the test page.

I read somewhere that i should use some hp officejet driver, maybe that's what i need to do?

and thank you for the help

[rcrsn51]

I have no experience with 7, but the instructions for XP are here. Read the section Sharing Your Puppy Printer.

[Nooblet0218]

sweet thank you, i will do do that

[Nooblet0218]

hell yeah, got it working. it was the driver that was the problem, and your guide there cleared it up.

Thanks for the help!!!!

[rcrsn51]

Which method did you use - the Postscript driver or the raw queue?

[8-bit]

[Nooblet0218]