Use of Cups printing in a home network.
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jun 30 13:47:20 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:05 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > I would like to use cups printing in my home network which consists of a
> > three Linux machines connected to a DSL router.
> >
> > I would like to use one of the machines as the print server and be able
> > to print from all the three machines, but nothing I try works. I can't
> > make browsing to occur.
> >
> > I suspect that this has something to do with transmission to the
> > various machines through port 631 but could anyone explain how this can
> > be done?
>
> Ordinarily, this is easy to do. Set up your server, do nothing with the
> clients, and the default firewall options lets local printing sort
> itself out.
>
> When that doesn't work, you may have to rethink how your firewall is set
> up. You may have to specify the server address in the
> client's /etc/cups/client.conf file. You may have to hand-edit the
> server /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file to listen to the local network and
> allow local connections.
>
> Read those config files, and the corresponding manuals/documentation.
I have done all this but look carefully at the firewall provided by the
DSL router. It just does not work. Browsing from server jsut does not
occur. I have done this many times with a standard lan and it has always
worked. So I am stumped.
I can't be the only one to want to do this. What do othere do?
>
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
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