cups port problem.

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 13:23 -0500, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> I am loosing my cool on this so I need help.
> This has to do with the ipp (cupsd) port 631.
> On the server.
> Running netstat -anp |grep 631
> returns:
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631               0.0.0.0:* LISTEN      24471/cupsd         
> udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:631                 0.0.0.0:* 24471/cupsd
> -- 
> Indicating that cupsd is listening on that port.

Yes, but only on localhost (127.0.0.1)

> Running: nmap -sT -O localhost |grep 631
> 631/tcp   open  ipp
>  And on the server I can telnet localhost 631 and it connects.
> 
>  However from a client when I run: nmap -sT -O sol |grep 631
>  from a client (sol is  our server) the 631 entry does not appear and in
>  fact when I telnet to the server at port 631 the connection is
>  refused.
> 
>  One would hope that somewhere in the cupsd.conf there is a line that
>  opens that port for access from other machines. Anyone know how to
>  open that port or what that line is in the configuration file. 
>  There is no firewall involved here.

What's the output of:
# egrep '^(Port|Listen)' /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

I have just:
Listen *:631

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>