network printing

[Dave Germiquet]

Hey,

Try telnetting to the port from the Fedora machine to see if it can
connect. I'm thinking it may not be able to because of this:

Listen localhost:631

This says it is only listening on localhost.

You can also check the cups logs to see whats happening.


On Feb 8, 2008 10:59 AM, Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to print across the network from a fedora 7 machine to an
> ubuntu 7.10 machine (printer is attached to that one). I thought I knew
> all the gotchas as I've done this so many times.
>
> Both machines are on the Internet, I can scp files between them, they
> can ping each other, both have openssh-server installed, I changed the
> line (/etc/cups/cupsd.conf) from 'Allow localhost' to 'Allow From All'
> (see excerpt below). What else can I try? The print server (do I
> automaticaly call it a print server because the printer is physically
> attached to it and the other computers print to it across the network?)
> prints to the printer okay.
>
>
>
> #   Sample configuration file for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS)
> #   scheduler.  See "man cupsd.conf" for a complete description of this
> #   file.
> #
>
> # Log general information in error_log - change "info" to "debug" for
> # troubleshooting...
> LogLevel warning
>
> # Administrator user group...
> SystemGroup lpadmin
>
>
> # Only listen for connections from the local machine.
> Listen localhost:631
> Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
>
> # Show shared printers on the local network.
> Browsing Off
> BrowseOrder allow,deny
> BrowseAllow all
> BrowseAddress @LOCAL
>
> # Default authentication type, when authentication is required...
> DefaultAuthType Basic
>
> # Restrict access to the server...
> <Location />
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow From All
>   Allow @LOCAL
> </Location>
>
> # Restrict access to the admin pages...
> <Location /admin>
>   Order allow,deny
> "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" 85 lines, 2426 characters
>
> Chris
>
>
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