Configuring a printer on a server without a GUI

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Nov 12 00:41:37 UTC 2014


On 11/11/2014 01:17 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/12/14 07:06, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> On 11/11/2014 12:32 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 11/12/14 06:14, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>> On 11/10/2014 10:19 PM, Dario Lesca wrote:
>>>>>    From console or a ssh shell run:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ sudo cupsctl _remote_admin=1
>>>> After installing cups (not part of minimal), I got:
>>>>
>>>> # cupsctl _remote_admin=1
>>>> cupsctl: Unable to connect to server: Bad file descriptor
>>> This indicates that the cups services are not running....
>>>
>>> systemctl enable cups
>>> systemctl start cups
>>>
>>> then cupsctl
>> OK.  that worked, but
>>
>> https://ipaddr:621/admin
>>
>> is unable to connect.  also fails with http://
>>
>>
> Did you mean
>
> https://ipaddr:631/admin

Sigh.  Typo.

But now that I am in (with or without TLS), I get 'Forbidden'.

It seems:

cupsctl _remote_admin=1

Is not enough.

Google search is showing lots of .conf changes needed.  One would think 
that this _remote_admin should do it?







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