On Sunday 23 April 2006 16:31, Jeff Vian wrote: >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. > And I've been using Samba for about 7 years, but never as a printer server, none, nada. Cups and ipp have worked for all printer sharing and nearly always have. No local configuration required other than to look at localhost:631, wait for it to find all the servers printers and quit. From that point on, anything I print brings up a requester to check if I want to use the default printer, I click ok, and a wee bit later I have inky paper on the output tray. And we're being told that should be all thats required if the printer is attached to a machine on the same subnet. So my advice is not to get rid of samba, but to take any and all references to the printers out of /etc/samba/smb.conf, on all machines, then restart samba and see if that helps. >> ================================================ >> 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 -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
