CUPS - from second FC box - RESOLVED

Bob Hartung rwhart at mchsi.com
Mon Dec 26 01:42:15 UTC 2005


Got it fixed.  Thanks to all who responded.

Bob

Thomas Taylor wrote:
> On Saturday 24 December 2005 01:24, Tim wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 21:15 -0600, Bob Hartung wrote:
>>
>>>I have FC4 up and running with cupsd running.  A printer is installed
>>>and I have added the line 'Allow From 192.168.14.*' just in front of
>>>the <location /> section marker of the cupsd.conf file in /etc/cups
>>>and restarted cups successfully.
>>
>>I'm not sure if you can do IP wildcarding in that style, the example
>>template in the configuration file is a bit vague (using nnn.* etc.),
>>although one example (nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn/nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn) does look like
>>they're talking about numerical IP addresses rather than named addresses
>>(DNS), it doesn't explicitly detail what they mean.  There are other
>>ways of mentioning address ranges, or interfaces, as shown in the
>>example configuration file, that may be more practical.
>>
>>The other thing that springs to mind is that you've said you've done it
>>just in front of the <Location /> marker.  Do you really mean inside of
>>it?
>>
>>Mine looks like:
>>
>><Location />
>>Order Deny,Allow
>>Deny From All
>>Allow From 127.0.0.1
>>Allow From @LOCAL
>></Location>
>>
>>You also need to do something similar with the Listen directive.
>>There's no point allowing connections from your LAN if CUPS isn't
>>listening for connections from it.
>>
>>--
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> 
> 
> You should probably try using 192.168.14.0/24 instead of the wildcard also.
> 
> Tom
> 




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