"Connection refused when attempting to contact 192.168.1.181:631"

Dennis Gilmore dennis at dgilmore.net
Sat Jan 31 02:25:53 UTC 2004


Once upon a time Saturday 31 January 2004 12:19 pm, Richard M. McCord wrote:
> I am trying to get my PC to print on my wife's printer.  We each are
> running Fedora Core 1.
>
> Per the CUPS instructions in the Osborne "RHCE Study Guide" (no
> laughing, it seemed like a good source of information), I try to open
> port 631 on her PC from my own using Mozilla.  The message in the
> subject line what I get in response.
>
> On her PC, mine is in her /etc/hosts.allow file.  On my PC, hers is in
> my hosts.allow file.  So I do not know what I am doing wrong.


Default cups config only allows connection from localhost so you first need to 
allow connection from your computer on hers.

Dennis
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