CUPS question with two subnets

Dave Reed drlinux at columbus.rr.com
Thu Apr 15 22:26:56 UTC 2004


On Thursday 15 April 2004 11:12, d l wrote:
> --- Dave Reed <drlinux at columbus.rr.com>
>> > 
> > On my wired network 192.168.1.x, CUPS seems to work
> > fine and all
> > computers can find the printers hooked up
> > 192.168.1.5.
> > 
> > I have a wireless router that has an "external
> > address" of
> > 192.168.1.128 and an internal address of
> > 192.168.2.1. My wireless
> > laptop at 192.168.2.2 cannot find the printers on
> > 192.168.1.5.
> > 
> > On the laptop, I put: BrowsePoll 192.168.1.5:631 in
> > /etc/cups/cupsd.conf 
> > 
> > but it complains in /var/log/cups/error_log
> > 
> > E [14/Apr/2004:16:54:07 -0400] [cups-polld
> > 192.168.1.5:631]
> > get-printers failed:
> > server-error-service-unavailable
> > E [14/Apr/2004:16:54:07 -0400] [cups-polld
> > 192.168.1.5:631]
> > get-classes failed: server-error-service-unavailable
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> > 
> 
> Have you enable 192.168.2.0 subnet to access cups?
> In /etc/cups/cups.conf Allow 
> browsing from 192.168.2.*
> 
> also allow accessing of 192.168.2.0 to
> <location />
> <location /printers>
> <location /classess>


I have used redhat-config-printer and told it to allow sharing from
all hosts.

When I explicitly set up a printer on the laptop and point it to the
printer on the desktop it does work. It just won't find the printer
automatically.

Dave






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