On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:05 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > I would like to use cups printing in my home network which consists of a > > three Linux machines connected to a DSL router. > > > > I would like to use one of the machines as the print server and be able > > to print from all the three machines, but nothing I try works. I can't > > make browsing to occur. > > > > I suspect that this has something to do with transmission to the > > various machines through port 631 but could anyone explain how this can > > be done? > > Ordinarily, this is easy to do. Set up your server, do nothing with the > clients, and the default firewall options lets local printing sort > itself out. > > When that doesn't work, you may have to rethink how your firewall is set > up. You may have to specify the server address in the > client's /etc/cups/client.conf file. You may have to hand-edit the > server /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file to listen to the local network and > allow local connections. > > Read those config files, and the corresponding manuals/documentation. I have done all this but look carefully at the firewall provided by the DSL router. It just does not work. Browsing from server jsut does not occur. I have done this many times with a standard lan and it has always worked. So I am stumped. I can't be the only one to want to do this. What do othere do? > -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
