Print Sharing with Ubuntu

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Fri Feb 17 00:03:19 UTC 2006


Ingo Lantschner wrote:
> Alex Mandel schrieb:
> 
>> You need to add some lines to the CUPS config file.
>> In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>>
>> Change
>> Listen 127.0.0.1:631 to Port 631
>>
>> and Add
>> Allow From 192.168.1.*
>> using your local network ip structure
>>
>>
>> After you change that restart the cups server
>> $sudo  /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
> Thanks Alex for your post! In the meantime I found this site:
> http://occy.net/printing
> There was the following hint: "Finally, you may have to add this on the 
> client side(where you are printing from): /etc/cups/client.conf
> ServerName hostname(IP might work) "
> So one has to edit also on the clientside the cups-config!!
> 
> What I am wondring about is: Is this always necesarry? In what 
> circumstances I can avoid editing the client-files?
> 
> Thanks again, Ingo.
> 
> 
I can't remember now if I did that too. But I don't think it was 
necessary since the printer manager ipp address has the IP, but maybe I 
did do that. I'll look when I go home.

Alex





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