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| Date | 2014-03-27 11:46 -0700 |
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| From | Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> |
| Subject | Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? |
| Message-ID | <20140327114606.6e21a51d.itz@buug.org> (permalink) |
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| Organization | Not much |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.networking |
| Organization | dizum.com - The Internet Problem Provider |
Avoid> Similarly, instead of finding some Windows-user, to print my text
Avoid> via their eth0 connection, I want to just plug my battery-powered
Avoid> rPi into the office ethernet that feeds the printer, and get the
Avoid> text on the USBstik, printed.
Joe> Your rPi will have to be configured with an IP address appropriate
Joe> for the network with the printer. Hopefully the office has DHCP
Joe> server so the rPi can auto-configure it's network settings. Once on
Joe> the network you'll need the IP or hostname of the printer as well
Joe> as the type/model ("HP" is not enough). Use that info to configure
Joe> lpr or cups on the rPi. Once all that's done you can print with
Joe> "lpr filename" or similar.
There is a DHCP lpr-server datum. I don't expect many DHCP
installations to provide it, though.
Also, there is Bounjour aka Zeroconf aka Rendezvous. CUPS implements
that via libavahi. So if the print spooler on the Pi is CUPS and the
network provides Bonjour service you should be able to find the printer
information automatically that way.
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Portable text2eth0 printer? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2014-03-15 11:47 +0000
Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2014-03-15 17:14 +0000
Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-03-21 09:35 +0000
Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2014-03-21 13:25 +0000
Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? Ian Zimmerman <itz@buug.org> - 2014-03-27 11:46 -0700
Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2014-04-07 12:40 +0000
Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2014-04-07 13:59 +0000
Re: Portable text2eth0 printer? Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-04-07 20:08 +0000
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