CUPS - from second FC box - RESOLVED

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Mon Dec 26 02:32:56 UTC 2005


On 12/25/05, Bob Hartung <rwhart at mchsi.com> wrote:
> 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.
> >>
> >>--
> >>Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> >>I read messages from the public lists.
> >
> >
> > You should probably try using 192.168.14.0/24 instead of the wildcard also.
> >
> > Tom
> >
>

For the record:  What was the fix that worked for you?




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