network printing

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 10:59:02AM -0500, Chris Aitken 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.

I have had very bad luck (as in it didn't work) editing the cups config
manually on newer cups versions.

What does work is going to the http://localhost:631/admin/ page and
clicking the checkbox for sharing printers with the network and then
saving settings.  I didn't bother checking what it added to the config,
but it worked.  With the web interface there really is no reason to mess
with the config file anymore.

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Len Sorensen
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