On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:10:00PM -0600, John Pierce wrote: > > 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. > > Ok, I disagree, if I only have 127.0.0.1 on my print server machine > then no computer on the local net can print to that print. I have > proven this in the last ten minutes. If I do not specifically tell > the server to listen on the eth0 address:port then that printer is not > seen by any other local machine. Maybe what you indicated should be > the default behaviour from a cups install from tarball straight from > ESP software, but not from an rpm out of fedora. I made one mistake in my earlier response . I spoke only about the cupsd.conf files on the clients. The cupsd.conf file on the server has an additions line which may or not be required. This line is as follows: Listen <server address> Otherwise the only othe Listen line is: Listen 127.0.0.1:631 ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
