How to make CUPS GUI available to other hosts?

[Knight]

On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 16:21 -0800, Masao Kitamura wrote:
> I'm trying to make the CUPS GUI available on a server (no monitor).
> 
> So, I'm testing on a desktop installation where I know the GUI works like this:
> 
> http://localhost:631
> 
> Next, I'm trying to access that same desktop box from another machine's brower:
> 
> http://the.other.box.that.works:631
> 
> The cupsd.conf file on the working machine looks like this:
> 
> LogLevel warn
> MaxLogSize 0
> SystemGroup lpadmin
> # Only listen for connections from the local machine.
> Listen *:631
> Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
> # Show shared printers on the local network.
> Browsing On
> BrowseOrder allow,deny
> BrowseAllow all
> BrowseRemoteProtocols CUPS
> BrowseLocalProtocols
> DefaultAuthType Basic
> 
> 
> However, I only get a 403 forbidden response from any other browser
> (non-localhost).
> 
> Does anyone know how to access the CUPS GUI from another machine?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Masao
> 

May I suggest a complete different way to achieve the same?

I don't know if it suits your needs, but if you're the only one who
administer the printer, you could also create a dynamic ssh tunnel to
the machines.

This should all be done from the other machine - from which you want to
administer cups. And I presumed that would be a Linux too.

For example:

ssh -D 1631 <your_cups_desktop_ip>

Log in (your cups-desktop) and keep the terminal open.

Then open a web-browser and configure it to use a SOCKS5 proxy on
localhost/127.0.0.1 port 1631

Next thing is to browse to http://localhost:631
You should land at the cups-interface of the cups-desktop.

You can test if the proxy works correct by going first to google or any
other website.(i.e. to check for your ip-address)

This way you don't have to make the cups admin interface public
available. Which I think is saver than to have it open just for
everyone. Cups is not for nothing standard closed to the public. ;-)

Regards,
-- 
Knight Of The Post


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