Printing from networked XP to local linux printer

R Kimber rkimber at ntlworld.com
Tue Jan 10 20:55:04 UTC 2006


On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:04:21 +1300
Tim Frost <timfrost at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> > I've allowed the XP machine to use port 631 on the linux firewall,
> > I've given it permission in cupsd.conf. 
> Have you told cups to listen on all IP addresses?  The default setup
> on ubuntu is to listen on 127.0.0.1:631 only.
> 
> Comment the line
> 	Listen 127.0.0.1:631
> and uncomment
> 	Port 631

Ah!  I had not really understood this.  I had tried
various permutations of Listen & IP addresses, and anyway thought it was
by default listening to 631.

You have no idea how grateful I am. Thanks very much.

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/




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