Beartooth wrote:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:11:39 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Beartooth wrote:
[...]
>> Wait a minute! After long enough looking at that like a poleaxed
>> ox, I suddenly see a sense it might make. Are you saying I can have
>> four tabs in the same browser *on the same machine* open to CUPS on all
>> four??
>>
> Yes.
>> I tried substituting some current LAN IP numbers for 127.0.0.1,
>> and got this every time from Firefox :
>>
> You have to turn on remote administration first.
Oho the First; I was trying to be too paranoid.
> Go to
http://localhost:631/admin on each machine - you should only have
> to do this once. Make sure all these check boxes are checked on the
> machine with the printer attached:
>
> Share published printers connected to this system Allow printing from
> the Internet
Oho the Second : that need not mean some script kiddie can run my
printer dry printing gibberish??
Not if your firewall is configured correctly, and by that I mean the
one facing the internet. If you're not using a router/firewall combo
to the internet, then yes, you should add iptables entries that allow
your local network access to port 631, but not from the outside.
> On every machine that you want to administer from another
machine, make
> sure the "Allow remote administration" box is checked. You may also have
> to open port 631 in the firewall.
The boxes are checked; lst's hope I don't have to tinker with the
firewalls.
> On all the machines that do NOT have the printer attached, make sure the
> "Show printers shared by other systems" box is checked.
Are you saying it should *not* be checked on the one *with* the
printer??
Yes.
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