[Solved - of sorts] CUPS printing problems
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sun Apr 23 20:31:12 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 05:24 -0700, Rickey Moore wrote:
>
>
> Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 22 April 2006 03:55, Jeff Vian wrote:
> >
> > I can confirm that I was forced to make changes in
> cupsd.conf by hand to
> > allow any thing but the localhost to print to my printers by
> cups.
> > Once I set the browse option to allow the other machines to
> see the
> > printers, and then set the Allow From option to allow the
> local network
> > to connect I am able to print from other machines on my
> local network.
> >
> > It seems the cups web interface only is designed to
> configure local
> > printing and has no options to set things to allow anything
> else on the
> > LAN to use the printer.
> >
> > This is definitely something that needs to be improved to
> allow new or
> > non-technical users to configure printers for network use,
> not just on
> > the localhost.
> >
> Intrigued by this thread, since I use networked printing all
> the time, I tried
> to use the cups interface on this box to add another
> configuration of my
> printer. It appeared to complete, telling me that it had added
> the printer.
> Checking on the server, I found that no new printer had been
> added there.
> Wondering if it had merely set up a local configuration to be
> piped through,
> I decided to try a test print of a photo. The new printer
> didn't show up on
> the printer list. Then I tried to print a test page, and got
> the message
> that the target printer doesn't exist.
> Way back in 2000, when I worked at RH, I had to come in from the cold
> and admit that I couldn't get my GF's printer to work at all. Toxic
> SHAME!! I brought the entire system to work, and no one else could get
> it to work, and they were the REAL experts!! I finally rpm -e'd samba.
> God only knows why or how that came to me to do so... and then the
> printer worked. I had beat myself up for over a -year-, and had come
> to the conclusion that there was something fundementaly wrong with
> me / linux / my system and it was Samba, all along.
>
> So, you might wish to check out your printer running locally first,
> then jump into the networking end. Your message indicates it works OK
> on localhost. That's good. Beat on your samba settings, that's most
> likely where your permission problem lies. I still shudder to think
> about the hell I went through with emails and postings all over the
> place just to locally print a page. <shudders> Ric
>
Great idea and I certainly would consider it if I was using samba.
However, none of my machines have ever had samba enabled/configured. My
network is pure Linux so the samba realm is not needed.
>
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