Use of Cups printing in a home network.

[Randy Wyatt]

On 6/30/06, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 11:05 +0930, Tim wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I have done all this but look carefully at the firewall provided by the
> DSL router. It just does not work. Browsing from server jsut does not
> occur. I have done this many times with a standard lan and it has always
> worked. So I am stumped.
>
> I can't be the only one to want to do this. What do othere do?
> >
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>From a client,  telnet printserver 631

The firewall on the DSL router is only for inbound connections
usually, and anything on the LAN portion acts just like a hub.
Are you possibly using different subnets?