[ale] printer support in router

[Dow Hurst]

If the router has port 631 open or the port of your choice open to some 
incoming IPs.  those incoming IPs can send print jobs in via CUPs.  What 
you do is to set the browsepoll keyword on the clients running CUPs so 
they will query the IP specified for a CUPs server.  The CUPs server 
must have those clients IPs allowed to send jobs in to it.  So 
BrowsePoll is needed and some permissions settings.  This is not a very 
secure situation and needs a VPN really,
Dow


Michael D. Hirsch wrote:

>I'm looking for a way for my wife and me to share a printer and ran across 
>a broadband router with a printer port.  Anyone know how these work?  Of 
>course, the docs say you must have Windows of Mac, but who reads docs.
>
>Can I just use, say, CUPS and tell it that it has a network address?  
>Anyone using one of these?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michael
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