Installing HP printer in Ubuntu 11.04 server

Printers can be easily configured using CUPS. Ubuntu server should have all required packages installed, to check if they are run:

# dpkg -l cups
 
# service cups status
Status of Common Unix Printing System: cupsd is running.

If CUPS is not running start it, then you can access it on http://localhost:631 . This works also on your desktop
installation, but since, I suppose, you don't have a running X server on your Ubuntu server you'll have to make it listen
on all interfaces instead of localhost and add Allow from all or only your IP address accordingly.

# vim /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
 
Listen 0.0.0.0:631
 
[ ... ]
 
<Location />
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Location>
 
<Location /admin>
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Location>
 
[ ... ]
 
 
# service cups restart

After that if you go to https://SERVER_IP:631 you can add your printer. After you are done adding your printer set CUPS back to listen on localhost only.