Re: Cups sharing problem with IPP

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam Trinity Edu>]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 08:50:36PM -0400, Darren R. Weber wrote:
> I need help with cups.  I never used it before RH 9 always using samba
> with lpr before.  I have samba up and running but it's not playing nice
> with cups either so I thought now would be a good time to figure out how
> to set up IPP for my windows hosts.  I have it all set up and I have two
> cues and have turned on sharing on both cues.  I got the IPP patch to
> make it work in win 98 for my wifes pc and now the problem:  When I go
> to my machine through a browser http://mymachinesip:631/ all I get is
> the following - 
> Forbidden
> You don't have permission to access the resource on this servers
I get this message when either cups daemon is not running or
contacting is not allowed by hosts.allow or the firewall.
> 
> That leads me to believe it is running but something is hosed.
> 
> If I try adding a printer I of course get a permission error on the win
> end.
> 
> I tried setting it to allow all hosts, I tried the exact IP of the win
> pc, I tried my whole network. . .nothing makes a difference.  I poked a
> hole in my firewall, and to be safe while setting it up I shut down
> iptables all together.
> 
> How do I get this thing to talk?  I need some specifics.  I read all the
> RH help pages and they are very generic like some voodoo magic will just
> make it work.  Where EXACTLY do I point the win boxes, and what EXACTLY
> needs to be done other than what I have on my linux end by setting up
> the printer and turning on sharing?
> 
> Thanks in advance. . .I'm sure I am not the only one that is lost on
> this.
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