[plug] CUPS remote administration

[James Devenish]

In message <1053317379.1070.22.camel at desktop2.rmsurveys.com.au>
on Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:09:38PM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
> I am trying to set up a cups printer on a remote server.  How do I
> change the setup to allow admin requests from any address on the lan and
> not just localhost?

Have a look at the cupsd.conf section entitled "Security Options".

> I have tried playing around with the 'listen'
> config variable in cupsd.conf but I constantly get an error in the cups
> error log file: StartListening: Unable to bind socket - Cannot assign
> requested address.

Sounds like the problem is that it is unable to bind to a socket -- it
cannot assign the requested address ;-)