[Discuss] CUPS Remote Printer

[Patrick]

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:44:45 -0700
Jeremy Kiffiak wrote:

[...]
> 
> Dear John,
> 
> In reality you would not "turn a router in to a simple switch" as it  
> is in fact ALREADY a simple switch when ONLY using the LAN side  
> ports.  After all a typical off-the-shelf router is a "simple  
> switch" (LAN ports) + firewall/routing (when using the WAN port).  I  
> agree that this solution would not hold true if the router device in  
> question was a Sonicwall or other business class router as they have  
> the built-in "smarts" (routing rules) to deny unwanted/unknown subnet  
> traffic.
> 
> If you re-read my post you will see that I explicitly mentioned using  
> LAN ports.  By NOT using the WAN side port of the router you are  
> completely bypassing the router aspect of the device.

Not always true.  I had to explicitly open some ports on the LAN
side of this relatively cheap D-Link DI-604 [reliable, but
certainly *not* commercial grade], before I could FTP stuff back
and forth between my old Mac and relatively new Penguin PC.

Relatively.  The Mac was assembled in 1995.  ;-P

Anyway, getting back to Murray's problem... I'm not sure if it
has anything to do with his network setup, because the same
arrangement that used to work, doesn't now, without any changes
except for a fresh Kubuntu install on his wife's computer.  So
that might be a better place to look for problems, and come up
with solutions.

I'm just guessing though, and have never set up a cups remote
printer myself [one physically connected printer, but that was
mostly luck].  Kind of why I've stayed out of this thread.

> The reason I  
> further mentioned turning DHCP off is to remove the possibility of  
> having a removing DHCP conflict requests by the LAN devices  
> (computers, printers, etc).
> 
> If for some reason the DHCP requests were not being passed through the  
> 2nd Router from the 1st Router static IP address would need to be  
> assigned to all devices plugged in to the 2nd Router.  This has not  
> been the case in my experience however.
> 
> I cannot emphatically state this will work with all consumer level  
> routers only that it has worked will all makes and models I have tried  
> it with (D-Link, Linksys & TrendNet to be specific).
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> ps:  Good luck Murray getting your printer situation resolved!

Yeah.  I don't have any good advice, but do wish you luck.  :-)



Patrick.

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