FC3 Print Sharing

[Paul Howarth]

Steve Croteau wrote:
> I stopped the firewall on both computers, opened the server sharing to 'all 
> hosts' then rebooted.
> 
> After that I received a 'connection refused' message using the 
> command:	
> 
> telnet 192.168.0.2 631
> 
> 
> http://localhost:631 in Firefox (on the server) shows a happy little 
> deskjet-5550-2 ready to go.
> 
> http://localhost:631 in Firefox (on the client) shows:
> 
> Use system-config-printer to edit this!
> Location: hp on sjc
> Printer State: processing, accepting jobs.
> "Network host '192.168.0.2' is busy; will retry in 30 seconds..."
> Device URI: http://192.168.0.2:631/printers/deskjet-5550-2
> 
> What's interesting to me is that this device URI shows http.  In the print 
> config GUI, I've selected IPP with only 192.168.0.2 in the Server field.

IPP operates over http; you can access an IPP printer by using 
http://printer:631/

> I don't know what to do about this.  Apparantly it's stumping several of you 
> smart guys.  Hmm...... what about the firewall built into the Netgear router?  
> It was never an issue when I had SuSE 9.1 but could it play into this at all?

Can you post the output of:
# fgrep 631 /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
on the print server

Paul.