Printer sharing

1. On the server:
   1. Set up your printer, and make sure it's turned on and working.
   2. Click on the "System" / "Administration" / "Printing" menu.
   3. Select "Server Settings" on the left, and turn on "Share published printers connected to this system". This will allow printer sharing over your private network. If you want to access the printer over the Internet, also turn on "Allow printing from the Internet".
   4. Select your printer under "Local Printers" on the left, select the "Policies" tab, and turn on "Enabled", "Accepting jobs", and "Shared".
   5. Use Firestarter to open port 631 (the default IPP port) for the IP addresses to which you want to give printer access. If you want to restrict printer access to your private network, set the policy to open your IPP port for only 192.168.0.0/16 (i.e., IPs of the form 192.168.xxx.xxx).
   6. If you are behind a router on a private network, give your server a static private IP (e.g., 192.168.1.30) by clicking on the "System" / "Administration" / "Network" menu item and setting up a static IP. Note that the "gateway address" should be the router's address (e.g., 192.168.0.1, 192.168.1.1, or whatever).
   7. If you want to access your server over the Internet and are behind a router, configure the router to allow access to your server's IPP port (port 631).
   8. If you want to access your server over the Internet and your Internet Service Provider doesn't give you a static IP address, you need to set up a publicly accessible hostname.
2. On the client:
   1. Click on the "System" / "Administration" / "Printing" menu.
   2. Click on the "New Printer" button.
   3. Select "Other", and enter the following URI:

      http://$SERVER:631/printers/$PRINTER 

      where $SERVER is the server URL or IP address and $PRINTER is the printer name on the server, and then click "Forward" and follow the remaining steps as you would for local printer setup. You can find the names of the shared printer on a server by visiting the following URL in your web browser:

      http://$SERVER:631/printers
      

      where $SERVER is the server URL or IP address.