Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing a CUPS printer

["Sarpy Sam" <sarpy.sam@gmail.com>]

On 9/18/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/18/06, Sarpy Sam <sarpy.sam@gmail.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> >
> > Maybe port 631 will work here, I have it set to Listen *.631
>
> Changed it to
>
> Listen *:631
>
> and restarted CUPS on the server.
>
> <SNIP>
> >
> > On the client mahines you want to comment out the listen localhost:631
> > line in cupsd.conf.  Then you want to make a file in /etc/cups called
> > client.conf.  Insert in it
> >
> > ServerName  *****
>
> Ah! OK, that makes sense. I changed it appropriately, restarted CUPS
> on the client machine and now I get this far:
>
> mark@dragonfly ~ $ lpq
> HP is ready
> no entries
> mark@dragonfly ~ $ lpstat -a
> HP accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
> mark@dragonfly ~ $
>
> So far this looks OK. However, if I go into the CUPS manager on the
> client and try to print a test page it's telling me the printer is not
> available.
>
> Any ideas? I guess you can print a test page from within the CUPS
> manager on the client?
>
> Thanks a lot for this much. It's helpful.
I messed around some more with mine now and found out a few more things.

I also added the following to the cupsd.conf on the print server machine.

# Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow 192.168.2.*
BrowseAllow @LOCAL


# Restrict access to the server...
<Location />
  Order allow,deny
  Allow localhost
  Allow From 192.168.2.*
</Location>

The 192.168.2.* is my local subnet I was trying to allow printing
from.  With a restart of the cups server on the machine with the
printer that client machine saw the peinter no problem.

I also now discovered that when I use the CUPS manager on the client
machine itr just forwards me to the CUPS manager on the Server
machine.  Since in cupsd.conf I haven't allowed a client machine
access to change anything I can't change any of the parameters of the
CUPS manager but I am able to print a test page.

I also finished setting up KDE and everything is now working fine on
the client with the setup I have described.  Sorry about forgetting to
tell you about the other two lines I changed in cupsd.conf.  Hope
these changes help you.
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