cups and my network printer

[zleap-Tp5KeRqLOeNeoWH0uzbU5w at public.gmane.org]

are both the cups ports open thats 9100 and 631.  also you have local and
network options I had to do trial and error for this but do you need both
ports open?

Regarding permissions I am sure that sometimes when adding printers using
kde I have to go to the administrator button and enter the root password
hance setting things up as root.

also is this any use
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http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-list/2004-January/msg00986.html

to conclude what this says

You need to put an entry in /etc/services to allow the port to be recognized
by xinetd.

lpd             631/tcp                         # lpd/CUPS port
lpd             631/udp                         # lpd/CUPS port


Paul

> Thanks to Jason Spiro for a suggestion I haven't thought of. While it
> did not succeed, it brings up a question as to why it didn't.
>
> He suggested that I run kdeprint and use that to configure CUPS. Running
> kdeprint under GNOME yielded a myriad of errors as suggested earlier in
> this thread, so I ran it under KDE. I got nowhere with the tool, since
> the menu which I am supposed to use to select CUPS was greyed out. In
> fact, ALL of the options were greyed out, and it was impossible to get
> beyond that dialog. This remained true when using KDE as root.
>
> There is a tool called "cupsdconf" which tells me "Unable to retrieve
> configuation file from CUPS server." It tells me that I may not have
> permission to access these files. It also tells me this when I am root.
>
> Using nmap -p- <ip_address> generated the following:
>
> 21/tcp   open     ftp
> 23/tcp   open     telnet
> 156/tcp  filtered sqlsrv
> 457/tcp  filtered scohelp
> 515/tcp  open     printer
> 560/tcp  filtered rmonitor
> 1987/tcp filtered tr-rsrb-p1
> 2903/tcp filtered extensisportfolio
> 3141/tcp filtered vmodem
> 7004/tcp filtered afs3-kaserver
> 7010/tcp filtered ups-onlinet
> 9100/tcp open     jetdirect
>
> SO, it seems as though there are several interesting services open here,
> but maybe there is something wrong with how cups got installed?
>
> Paul King
>
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