[plug] Printer sharing Dodgy

[Quintin Lette]

Using IPP printing through CUPS worked fine to a windows 2000 workstation that 
logged onto my network.

You just have to setup the permissions to allow cups to be browseable, etc.

ie, I have these entries in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf : (comments added here)

Browsing On
BrowseProtocols All
BrowseAddress @LOCAL	#this one allows browsing local network (non routed) only
BrowseAllow @LOCAL #allowing only local network to browse
BrowsePort 631

<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
Allow From @LOCAL
</Location>

Please note this is not the complete config file, just entries that are 
interesting to allowing printing access to network.  The cupsd.conf file is 
quite verbosely commented and reasonably easy to understand.  This may also 
not be 100% secure, but it _should_(tm) get you printing from w2k. I can 
provide my entire working config file if you need but I'll only do that if 
required. In windows 2000 it was quite easy to add the printer, but I don't 
have any windows clients here and I can't remember what I did. (I used it a 
couple of times with my friend's W2k laptop, but I put debian on it for him 
so I can't even test when he visits next)

HTH

Quintin

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:17 pm, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <002801c36259$66210fc0$6e64640a at tesla>
>
> on Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:44:19PM +0800, Ryan Smith wrote:
> > no the address is right. Its more it keeps on coming up with errors
> > saying cannot connect, access denied. and each time i turn on the server
> > the comment keeps on changing to something other than what ive got in
> > samba.
>
> I was thinking that you could use IPP instead of Samba, to avoid any
> Samba access problems and give you a plain-text protocol that you could
> examine easily.
>
> > whatswrong with win printer drivers. usually they come with the printer
> > when you buy it. if you dont have any they can generally be downloaded or
> > windows can install them. ok they arent perfect but they seem to work.
>
> I have had ongoing trouble with HP drivers, more than others. It seems
> like every product vendor wants you to install and configure their own
> bizarre crash-causing space-consuming software rather than have things
> work out-of-the-box (plug-and-play).