On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:21:23PM -0600, John Pierce wrote: > Well, I had similar problems getting cups to serve up to my local > network, what I found was the cupsd.conf file says that certain > defaults exist to serve a local network, and according to the > documentation in the conf file those defaults should allow local > machines to print to it. > > What I discovered was having to manually set the defaults to make it > work, I think the redhat/fedora developers tell it not to share on the > network for security reasons, but fail to adjust the documentation to > match their build configuration. > > Take the following for example: > > ######## > ######## Network Options > ######## > # > # Ports/addresses that we listen to. The default port 631 is reserved > # for the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) and is what we use here. > # > # You can have multiple Port/Listen lines to listen to more than one > # port or address, or to restrict access: > # > # Port 80 > # Port 631 > # Listen hostname > # Listen hostname:80 > # Listen hostname:631 > # Listen 1.2.3.4 > # Listen 1.2.3.4:631 > According to the above statement the system should allow connection on > port 631, but if I do not add the following two lines I cannot print > to this host. > > Listen localhost > Listen 192.168.0.70:631 > > Go through and check the configuration file. > > John Ok, lets take this from the top. The cupsd.conf should have only one Listen statement in most cases, and that is: Listen 127.0.0.1 Clients on the same LAN will be able to print to the printer without any further configuration. That is , no server line needs o appear in the clients.conf file. Further, if the Server line appears in the client.conf file then the client will not be able to print to a local printer. Under no circumstances should system-config-printer be used to configure CUPS printers. It has serious flaws for this purpose. If the original poster used system-config-printer to configure the server printers this is one reason printer might have not worked on the clients. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- ======================================================================= When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
