Use of Cups printing in a home network.

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Tue Jun 20 01:35:54 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:23 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> I would like to use cups printing in my home network which consists of a
> three Linux machines connected to a DSL router.
> 
> I would like to use one of the machines as the print server and be able
> to print from all the three machines, but nothing I try works. I can't
> make browsing to occur.
> 
> I suspect that  this has something to do with transmission to the
> various machines through port 631 but could anyone explain how this can
> be done?

Ordinarily, this is easy to do.  Set up your server, do nothing with the
clients, and the default firewall options lets local printing sort
itself out.

When that doesn't work, you may have to rethink how your firewall is set
up.  You may have to specify the server address in the
client's /etc/cups/client.conf file.  You may have to hand-edit the
server /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file to listen to the local network and
allow local connections.

Read those config files, and the corresponding manuals/documentation.

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