Port 631: Cups availability

[Andrew Robinson]

Kevac Marko wrote:
> Pete Schmitt wrote:
> 
>> I have 3 Fedora systems (+ 1 Slackware server) at home.  I would like 
>> to share the printers via cups.   The Fedora systems are blocking that 
>> port from outside connections.   How do I open that up to the rest of 
>> the systems?
> 
> 
> 
> Look into the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. There are some default restrictions.
> 
> 
I added these lines to the iptables file on my CUPS server:

# CUPS Access
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m tcp -p tcp --dport 631 -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m udp -p udp --dport 631 -s 192.168.1.0/24 -j ACCEPT

HTH,

Andrew Robinson