I have a recently updated/freshly installed fedora core 6 workstation with an attached printer. I'm trying to set it up so that other computers can print to the attached printer.
I cannot find anywhere in the "system-config-printer" program that says "allow printing from network".
I had to edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and add a "Listen hostname:631" and an "Allow mynetwork" line there.
After I added them, the two lines mysteriously disappeared. We tried reproducing the program by starting system-config-printer again, making changes, restarting cups, etc... the changes stayed. I'm thinking whatever overwrote my cupsd.conf is waiting for me to be out of the building to break it again.
Is there a proper "fedora-way" to tell cups to allow for network printing? Is there a reason why my changes to cupsd.conf are getting replaced?
Thanks!!
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Tom Cross wrote:
I have a recently updated/freshly installed fedora core 6 workstation with an attached printer. I'm trying to set it up so that other computers can print to the attached printer.
I cannot find anywhere in the "system-config-printer" program that says "allow printing from network".
I had to edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and add a "Listen hostname:631" and an "Allow mynetwork" line there.
After I added them, the two lines mysteriously disappeared. We tried reproducing the program by starting system-config-printer again, making changes, restarting cups, etc... the changes stayed. I'm thinking whatever overwrote my cupsd.conf is waiting for me to be out of the building to break it again.
Is there a proper "fedora-way" to tell cups to allow for network printing?
On the left of the s-c-p window is a "Server Settings" menu entry. Click that and check "Share published printers..." Then on each printer's Settings tab, check "Shared".
Is there a reason why my changes to cupsd.conf are getting replaced?
I thought the new s-c-p was supposed to eave custom entries in cupsd.conf alone. Maybe not...
Thanks!!
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 15:59 -0600, Tom Cross wrote:
Is there a reason why my changes to cupsd.conf are getting replaced?
You could try turning off the cups-config-daemon. I don't know about now, but in the past it was implicatetd in that sort of thing.
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 15:59 -0600, Tom Cross wrote:
I had to edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and add a "Listen hostname:631" and an "Allow mynetwork" line there.
After I added them, the two lines mysteriously disappeared. We tried reproducing the program by starting system-config-printer again, making changes, restarting cups, etc... the changes stayed. I'm thinking whatever overwrote my cupsd.conf is waiting for me to be out of the building to break it again.
Perhaps you had experimented with the 'Server settings' checkboxes in either the system-config-printer tool or the CUPS web interface after making the changes to cupsd.conf?
Nothing else in FC-6 ought to be making any changes to that file at all.
Is there a proper "fedora-way" to tell cups to allow for network printing?
As in another reply: select 'Share published printers' in the server settings screen, and select 'Shared' for each printer you want to publish. (That checkbox ought to read 'Published' actually..)
Is there a reason why my changes to cupsd.conf are getting replaced?
In FC-6 cupsd.conf should only be modified as a result of you changing the 'Server Settings' checkboxes, either in system-config-printer or in the CUPS web interface.
Tim. */
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 15:59 -0600, Tom Cross wrote:
I have a recently updated/freshly installed fedora core 6 workstation with an attached printer. I'm trying to set it up so that other computers can print to the attached printer.
I cannot find anywhere in the "system-config-printer" program that says "allow printing from network".
I had to edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and add a "Listen hostname:631" and an "Allow mynetwork" line there.
After I added them, the two lines mysteriously disappeared. We tried reproducing the program by starting system-config-printer again, making changes, restarting cups, etc... the changes stayed. I'm thinking whatever overwrote my cupsd.conf is waiting for me to be out of the building to break it again.
Is there a proper "fedora-way" to tell cups to allow for network printing? Is there a reason why my changes to cupsd.conf are getting replaced?
The correct way to do this is setup the printer on the print server using cups web interface (localhost:631) and then do nothing on the clients as far as client.conf is concerned. All computers on the same LAN will be able to print to the print server.
Or to me more specific do not use system-config-printer to configure the printer. -- ======================================================================= Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
Is there a need to open ports on the firewall to allow other printers to share the printer setup on a specific machine?
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 10:56 +0000, Mike Cohler wrote:
Is there a need to open ports on the firewall to allow other printers to share the printer setup on a specific machine?
I would imagine that port 631 would have to be open. -- ======================================================================= "I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?" -- Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Mike Cohler wrote:
Is there a need to open ports on the firewall to allow other printers to share the printer setup on a specific machine?
Port 631 udp and tcp should be open, but I don't think you need to do anything special to make it happen.
What's in /etc/sysconfig/iptables? Do you have a custom firewall?
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