On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 6:22 PM, mick.crane wrote:
> On 2024-07-24 23:32, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:59 AM, mick.crane wrote:
>>> On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote:
>>>> What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer
>>>> software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software?
>>>>
>>>> Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and
>>>> "ultimate") only have 500 MB of RAM. So I'm reluctant to install a
>>>> GUI (though I realize they have a VGA port so it *is* possible to do
>>>> so) for fear of running out of available RAM.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to install CUPS to interface the OpenRDs to my HP laser
>>>> printer, but I haven't found any way to configure CUPS with only a
>>>> CLI
>>>> text console. The recommended way in the CUPS docs is to point a web
>>>> browser at "localhost:631" but that doesn't work if you don't have a
>>>> web browser on the machine. The way I've done it before involved
>>>> using the "lynx" browser but that is very difficult and absolutely
>>>> crazy-making.
>>>>
>>>> The really best thing would be to connect from some some other,
>>>> larger
>>>> machine on the LAN that *does* have a GUI and web browser (for
>>>> example, my desktop Mac) to the port that appears on the OpenRD as
>>>> "http://localhost:631";. Some of my duck-duck-go-ing has produced
>>>> things that hint this is possible, but didn't give any details.
>>>>
>>>> But if there's a pure-CLI way to do it, I'd be happy with that, too.
>>>>
>>>> Can you point me to some documentation that might help?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Rick
>>>
>>> without any desktop it can be set up with lpadmin. I found the hard
>>> bit
>>> was finding out what cups thought the printer was called.
>>>
>>> mick
>>
>> Thanks, Mick!
>> Do you have any hints on "the hard part" (finding out what CUPS thinks
>> it's called) ?
>
> I can't remember the order of doing things.
> These last few installs the printer automagically works.
> "lpoptions" on the PC with the printer attached reports among other
> things.
> "printer-uri-supported=ipp://localhost/printers/HP-LaserJet-P2015-Series"
> I think to print I used to be able to type.
> "my_file.txt||lp"
> but seems that's not setup.
> mick
I've found a solution that works -- (as I posted previously)
"https://thelinuxcode.com/cups_print_server_ubuntu/"; gives enough of the
details to be able to point a browser on my desktop mac at "http://client:631";
and do everything I need.
I'm fairly sure the ssh port forwarding trick would have worked, though I
didn't try it because I was already pretty far down the rabbit hole of using a
remote browser.
Big thanks to all who helped!
Rick)
