54 GB in /var/log!! -- UPDATE
Rick Stevens
ricks at nerd.com
Wed Oct 29 21:44:14 UTC 2008
Beartooth wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:11:39 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
>> Beartooth wrote:
> [...]
>>> Wait a minute! After long enough looking at that like a poleaxed
>>> ox, I suddenly see a sense it might make. Are you saying I can have
>>> four tabs in the same browser *on the same machine* open to CUPS on all
>>> four??
>>>
>> Yes.
>>> I tried substituting some current LAN IP numbers for 127.0.0.1,
>>> and got this every time from Firefox :
>>>
>> You have to turn on remote administration first.
>
> Oho the First; I was trying to be too paranoid.
>
>> Go to http://localhost:631/admin on each machine - you should only have
>> to do this once. Make sure all these check boxes are checked on the
>> machine with the printer attached:
>>
>> Share published printers connected to this system Allow printing from
>> the Internet
>
> Oho the Second : that need not mean some script kiddie can run my
> printer dry printing gibberish??
Not if your firewall is configured correctly, and by that I mean the
one facing the internet. If you're not using a router/firewall combo
to the internet, then yes, you should add iptables entries that allow
your local network access to port 631, but not from the outside.
>> On every machine that you want to administer from another machine, make
>> sure the "Allow remote administration" box is checked. You may also have
>> to open port 631 in the firewall.
>
> The boxes are checked; lst's hope I don't have to tinker with the
> firewalls.
>
>> On all the machines that do NOT have the printer attached, make sure the
>> "Show printers shared by other systems" box is checked.
>
> Are you saying it should *not* be checked on the one *with* the
> printer??
Yes.
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