Re: Printer share through CUPS hell... What could be wrong?

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Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:

Yet again I face the hell of trying to share through CUPS a printer... I thought the issue with the firewall was solved in one of the various revisions of system-config-printer and printer-tui, but it seems I was wrong... In any case, I have made the printer atthached to my own computer available to all the hosts in the local network (I tried to specify the network to no avail). In anycase I turned down the firewall on my computer and the client computer could print to my local attached printer, exported as a CUPS (IPP) printer... So I opened the necesary ports on my firewall (I use a firewall builder generated firewall script) and in the policy I have set to accept all connections on the local network to my computer (for testing purposes set to log activity on this rule)... I bring up the firewall, and tail -f /var/log/messages... Then I try to print from the client computer... The connection is recieved and accepted on port 631, but no print activity... Hmmm... So remembered I also needed the spool ports... I went to firewall builder, but what do you know?? I am ACCEPTing all connections on the local network (Class C 192.168.1.0), and still no dice... In sytem-cofnig-printer (GUI) I see a message:

Unable to get printer status (client-error-forbidden)! What does that mean?

Also whenever I select on my computer Activate LPD protocol checkbox and accept that, if I immediately click the share properties again, the check box is diselected... So I assume the change does not have *any* effect and as such it is the same whatever I select as the CUPS printer in the client computer (another FC3 system)... Did I mention both systems are fully updated to today's (well yesterday's, actually) updates? I'm quickly running out of ideas as to what try next... I may try to use the system-config-printer-tui tool and see if with that I have any better luck... though I doubt it. And as I thought a quick glance did not show anything to set sharing.

Apparently when you set the spool on the client computer you *must* specify the name you gave to the printer in the local configuration.... Anyway apparently I got it this time, I had to put in the name of the printer as /prnters/<printer_name>


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