Re: Remote Priting

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:34:41 +0200
"christopher cuse" <ccuse tiscali fr> wrote:

> > I did all of that except the cups part. I've been avoiding it
> > because the previous printing system has been good to me. Until now,
> > anyway.
> >
> > Yeah, it's listening to 515. I have the daemon running on both. I
> > can print from the machine that has it directly attached. I get
> > "no connect
> > permissions" from the other machine. As I said, I can't even telnet
> > to that port. That's weird because there's no firewall whatsoever on
> > that box, and all iptables rules show ACCEPT on that machine.
> >
> > I might mull this over a little bit and possibly dive into cups.
> >
> > Is there a simple "CUPS for Dummies" site? I tried it once a long
> > time ago. It was difficult for me (at that time) to figure out
> > what was going
> > on, and I never did get it to work. That was just as well then since
> > I already had printing. I was just trying to see what else was out
> > there at the time.
> >
> > --
> > So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him
> > a genius.
> >
> 
> hi al,
> 
> well, my experience with cups has been so darn good that i cannot
> hesitate to recommend it -- just fantastic. i have the kitchen sink
> installed --
> 
> cups-drivers-pnm2ppa-1.9-1.20020617.6
> cups-drivers-1.9-1.20020617.6
> cups-drivers-hpijs-1.9-1.20020617.6
> cups-1.1.17-0.2
> cups-libs-1.1.17-0.2
> foomatic-1.9-1.20020617.6
> Omni-foomatic-0.7.0-6
> 
> you'll maybe need to modify the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf to allow admin to
> access the web page from an ip address other than localhost. once you
> have done that, restart the cups daemon and start a web browser with
> http://your.host.com:631 and enter root/rootpassword. the web
> interface is so nice and obvious, that you'll have up it and running
> in zero time. the remote web admin is extremely useful if your out and
> about and printer problem occurs ...

I'll give 'er a shot. Thanks.

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