[svlug] Remote printing on Xubuntu

[Jeff Frost]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Skip Evans wrote:

> Nope, nada, zilch. Still nothing from the remote
> workstation.
>
> And now I seem to have boofed the browser
> interface to cups as well. I get to the first
> screen with
>
> localhost:631
>
> Fine, but attempting to select any of the buttons
> like printers, jobs, gets a connection error screen.
>
> I think it would be more cost affective for me to
> go out and buy five more printers, given my level
> of incompetence and sheer stupidity here.

So what happens if you add the localhost:631 back but leave the *:631 as well? 
I can't believe * wouldn't include localhost, but I suppose that's possible. 
BTW, here's the reference page for the conf file:

http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/ref-cupsd-conf.html

And you are of course restarting cupsd each time you make a change, right?



>
> Skip
>
> Jeff Frost wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Skip Evans wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> Just found this in cupsd.conf
>>>
>>> # Only listen for connections from the local machine.
>>> Listen localhost:631
>>> Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Could that be my problem? If so, what should it be
>>> changed to?
>>>
>>
>> For sure:
>>
>> Listen *:631
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> Listen localhost:631
>>
>> Will probably do the trick for you.
>>
>>> Listen from All
>>>
>>> ???
>>>
>>> Skip
>

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