On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 05:24 -0700, Rickey Moore wrote: > > > Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 22 April 2006 03:55, Jeff Vian wrote: > > > > I can confirm that I was forced to make changes in > cupsd.conf by hand to > > allow any thing but the localhost to print to my printers by > cups. > > Once I set the browse option to allow the other machines to > see the > > printers, and then set the Allow From option to allow the > local network > > to connect I am able to print from other machines on my > local network. > > > > It seems the cups web interface only is designed to > configure local > > printing and has no options to set things to allow anything > else on the > > LAN to use the printer. > > > > This is definitely something that needs to be improved to > allow new or > > non-technical users to configure printers for network use, > not just on > > the localhost. > > > Intrigued by this thread, since I use networked printing all > the time, I tried > to use the cups interface on this box to add another > configuration of my > printer. It appeared to complete, telling me that it had added > the printer. > Checking on the server, I found that no new printer had been > added there. > Wondering if it had merely set up a local configuration to be > piped through, > I decided to try a test print of a photo. The new printer > didn't show up on > the printer list. Then I tried to print a test page, and got > the message > that the target printer doesn't exist. > Way back in 2000, when I worked at RH, I had to come in from the cold > and admit that I couldn't get my GF's printer to work at all. Toxic > SHAME!! I brought the entire system to work, and no one else could get > it to work, and they were the REAL experts!! I finally rpm -e'd samba. > God only knows why or how that came to me to do so... and then the > printer worked. I had beat myself up for over a -year-, and had come > to the conclusion that there was something fundementaly wrong with > me / linux / my system and it was Samba, all along. > > So, you might wish to check out your printer running locally first, > then jump into the networking end. Your message indicates it works OK > on localhost. That's good. Beat on your samba settings, that's most > likely where your permission problem lies. I still shudder to think > about the hell I went through with emails and postings all over the > place just to locally print a page. <shudders> Ric > Great idea and I certainly would consider it if I was using samba. However, none of my machines have ever had samba enabled/configured. My network is pure Linux so the samba realm is not needed. > > > ================================================ > My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: > "There are two Great Sins in the world... > ...the Sin of Ignorance, and > ...the Sin of Stupidity. > Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. > > Linux user# 44256 > Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ > ================================================ > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Love cheap thrills? Enjoy PC-to-Phone calls to 30+ countries for just > 2¢/min with Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
