printing on home network [SOLVED}]

[Aaron Konstam]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 18:34 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> On Friday 07 July 2006 13:55, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > As many suspected all I needed to do to get printing on my home network
> > solved is to fix the contents of the cupsd.conf file and make a tweak in
> > the clients.conf file of one of my machines that has its own local
> > printer.
> 
> Hi Aaron:
> 
> You might post a section showing what you did to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf that was 
> responsible for making it work.  Someone else may have that problem or one 
> similar and would than be able to make progress using your solution.  And 
> some of us just like to look at solutions to problems in general and learn 
> what we can.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
Ok, fail enough. The client.conf files on all the machines are just
those distributed without change. I have attached my cupsd.conf file
from the server.
The key changes were these:
Listen 192,168.1.100  <-- the address of my print server


<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 192.168.1.*  <-- the subnet of my home network.
</Location>

.
.
<Location /printers/ophelia>  <-- ophelia is the printer on my server.
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From ALL
AuthType None
</Location>

The cupsd.conf on the clients were the files as distributed
I hope all this helps someone out there.

Note: as I said before the clients could not have a line in the
clients.conf file identifying the print server if that machine has a
local printer. Havinig that line prevents the client from printing to
its local printer.
-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>