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Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) & Airport Extremes

13 Sep

Now – I know some of you probably hate Apple…I don’t, clearly. So if you do, please don’t come and post comments about how much you hate them, I won’t approve them :)

So with that out of the way, on with the post. I’ve just installed Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10) this evening, and in the process of setting things up, I realised I’d never installed my printer on Jaunty (9.04). So I figured I’d give it a go, wondering if it would be as easy as when I installed it on all the other PC’s & my MacBook – as it’s connected to my router (the airport extreme), it’s shared using bonjour, which I happen to really like, it does mean setting up the printer is much more simple, and a lot quicker than normal.

I’ll be honest – my hopes weren’t very high, I figured that since it’s an Apple developed technology, and not open-sourced, that I would have a hell of a time trying to get it to work. I was totally wrong. I did configure it slightly differently, in that I opened http://localhost:631 in Firefox to set it all up via the CUPS web UI. I chose “Add Printer” and it scanned for connected printers locally and networked – I sat waiting for it to finish, and tell me that nothing was connected….

I’m sure you can imagine my surprise, and curiosity, when it returned my printer under “Network Printers”. I continued with the setup, expecting it to throw back an error of some variety, but no, it all installed fine. To make sure I wasn’t just daftly pointed and clicking things that looked relevant, I printed a test page…..which I now have on my desk next to me – chalk one up for Ubuntu!

Overall, having run Karmic for all over 2 hours now – I’m already very impressed, and I’m looking forward to the final release.

 
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Printer Sharing With Ubuntu Server

29 Sep

I’ve been trying for at least a week to get this working (with an Epson Stylus DX4200), and it’s just not happened…until now!!!

Originally I tried (I don’t know why, so don’t ask) to share the printer over the samba share that I currently have in place on the network, as it seemed a good idea…at the time, I know no that it’s something that should never be attempted (currently).

After many tedious tweakings of many various things, and still no printing across the network. I finally stumbled across this thread on the forums which I followed, and happily…it worked!!! I now have printing across the network. I checked by printing a test page from my laptop (Ubuntu) and then an XP desktop downstairs.

After all that effort of trying to share the printer via samba, it turns out that I managed to share it using ipp – which even Windows supports (though not many people seem to know about that). I think that the main issue I was having is that searching for how to share a printer via Ubuntu gave GUI options suited to the desktop, and not Ubuntu Server – which is CLI only, so I had to edit

/etc/cups/cupsd.conf

Anyway – it works now, I’m happy – and the rest of the family is happy too, and it’s 10x more convenient than before.

 
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