[plug] cups linux 2 linux

[Chris Caston]

Thanks!

Alan it looks like you have saved the day. I'm going back to the HQ
youth center to try it. I'll let you know how it goes.

<rant to clear head>everyone there wanted to surf the web and print
stuff off on my test machines while I was trying to get this working
which was a real pain.</rant>



On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 15:00, Graham, Alan A. wrote:
> I kept this snippet from a post from the CUPS mailing list ages ago,  It was
> from Til (the mandrake CUPS maintainer), so it is fairly authoritative.  The
> /etc/cups/printer.conf should contain
> 
> BrowseAllow @LOCAL
> BrowseOrder deny,allow
> <Location />
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> Allow From @LOCAL
> </Location>
> <Location /admin>
> AuthType Basic
> AuthClass System
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> </Location>
> 
> HTH
> 
> Alan
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	caston at iinet.net.au [SMTP:caston at iinet.net.au]
> > Sent:	Friday, 29 November 2002 14:56
> > To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject:	Re: [plug] cups linux 2 linux
> > 
> > okay
> > 
> > I learnt about lpstat
> > 
> > I'm doing lpstat -h servername -a
> > 
> > but getting: 
> > 
> > lpstat: get-printers failed: server-error-service-unavailable
> > 
> > 
> > I got this from google:
> > 
> > msg:
> > There are three Locations that come in the default setup: 
> > <Location />
> > <Location /printers>
> > <Location /admin>
> > 
> > You need to make sure that printers also has permission set for your 
> > hostname or ip.  
> > 
> > 
> > reply to msg:
> > 
> > ocation, Location, Location!
> > 
> > or in this case:
> > 
> > <Location />
> > Allow from <my.ip.addys.here>....
> > </Location>
> > 
> > I'm still not sure what this means I can find /etc/cups/printer.conf
> > but I can't find anything to do with location!
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > What do I need to access a cups server from a cups client?
> > > 
> > > I'm trying qtcups
> > > 
> > > I have added the IP address of the CUPS server to /etc/cups/client.conf
> > >  
> > > ServerName 10.0.20.18
> > > 
> > > running qtcups as a external printing command from kedit brings up the
> > print 
> > > dialog box. If I do this from the server with localhost in the server
> > box the option
> > > to printer to LaserJet1200 is there. 
> > > 
> > > However, changing localhost to the IP does not show the Laserjet1200
> > > 
> > > I assume as I haven't yet brought windows in the equation I don't need
> > samba.
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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