Cups- installing a network printer

[viking60]

Install cups.
My HP Photosmart is now the network printer for the entire house. I had to create the lpadmin group and add the users to it.

Then I altered some lines in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
from

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SystemGroup sys root

to

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SystemGroup sys root lpadmin

I also had to do some Allow from <ip> to get the network connections to work.
Cups comes with a restriction to only work on localhost so I had to change:

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localhost:631

to

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Port 631

Under #Allow remote access

After that the gnome-administration-printers menu found it immediately and picked it as a default printer on every box in the house.

So now everyone has the network printer as their default printer again

[dedanna1029]

Very nice.

[viking60]

I had to do as I was told

[dedanna1029]