Printer share through CUPS hell... What could be wrong?

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:

>    Yet again I face the hell of trying to share through CUPS a 
> printer... I thought the issue with the firewall was solved in one of 
> the various revisions of system-config-printer and printer-tui, but it 
> seems I was wrong... In any case, I have made the printer atthached to 
> my own computer available to all the hosts in the local network (I 
> tried to specify the network to no avail). In anycase I turned down 
> the firewall on my computer and the client computer could print to my 
> local attached printer, exported as a CUPS (IPP) printer... So I 
> opened the necesary ports on my firewall (I use a firewall builder 
> generated firewall script) and in the policy I have set to accept all 
> connections on the local network to my computer (for testing purposes 
> set to log activity on this rule)... I bring up the firewall, and tail 
> -f /var/log/messages... Then I try to print from the client 
> computer... The connection is recieved and accepted on port 631, but 
> no print activity... Hmmm... So remembered I also needed the spool 
> ports... I went to firewall builder, but what do you know?? I am 
> ACCEPTing all connections on the local network (Class C 192.168.1.0), 
> and still no dice... In sytem-cofnig-printer (GUI) I see a message:
>
> Unable to get printer status (client-error-forbidden)! What does that 
> mean?
>
> Also whenever I select on my computer Activate LPD protocol checkbox 
> and accept that, if I immediately click the share properties again, 
> the check box is diselected... So I assume the change does not have 
> *any* effect and as such it is the same whatever I select as the CUPS 
> printer in the client computer (another FC3 system)... Did I mention 
> both systems are fully updated to today's (well yesterday's, actually) 
> updates? I'm quickly running out of ideas as to what try next... I may 
> try to use the system-config-printer-tui tool and see if with that I 
> have any better luck... though I doubt it. And as I thought  a quick 
> glance did not show anything to set sharing.
>
Apparently when you set the spool on the client computer you *must* 
specify the name you gave to the printer in the local configuration.... 
Anyway apparently I got it this time, I had to put in the name of the 
printer as /prnters/<printer_name>