How-To TIP - How To setup Internet Printing Protocol (IPP everywhere) to print to any printer from CIAB

[bmullan]

Step 1

On your local linux system use ippfind to get IPP address of local printers

example:

$ ippfind

might return something like the following, which would tell me I have at least one IPP enabled printer

$ ipp://BRW6814019ED515.local:631/ipp/print

Step 2

On your work/home WiFi router configure PORT forward to forward "some port" to IP address of local Printer and its Port 631

Step 3

Then on your CIAB Host/Server (Cloud/VM/physical server). Log into both the ciab-guac and the cn1 LXD containers and do the following steps in both containers:

make CIAB Admin User ID a member of "lpadmin" group

Step 4 - create the CUPS IPP printer configuration

then as sudo or root use lpadmin to add the remote printer locally on CIAB

-p = printer_name = the name of the printer as it will appear on the Linux system in the Print dialog boxes

-v = ip_address = the PUBLIC IP address of home Wifi Router that the Printer is attached to via wifi
port_ID = the WIFI "source PORT" for the Port Forward config statement

-L = location of remote printer (any name you want to ID where the printer is located)

The command line to create the Printer, all one line, and executed as sudo is:

# lpadmin -E -p printer_name -v http://<wifi_ip_address:wifi_port_ID/ipp/print -L printer_location -E -m everywhere

example - assuming you set your wifi router to port forward port 6993 to port 633 and that your wifi
router's PUBLIC IP address is 45.24.77.191 then on the CN1 container enter:

# lpadmin -E -p home_printer htttp://45.24.77.191:6993/ipp/print -L my_home -E -m everywhere