Re: Cups not advertising printers

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Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-04-03 at 10:19 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: 
>> I'm installing a new print server, and it's not serving. I've configured the 
>> printer, it works locally, but even though I checked "share" the ipp packets are 
>> only sent locally. My existing servers are on FC6, and work fine (private net) 
>> but the administrative tools for FC12 are totally different.
>>
>> Interestingly, when I try to add a printer, the client doesn't show any network 
>> printers and when I try to explicitly look on the server I get a message:
>>    It is not possible to get a list of queues from `ps3.tmr.com'
>>
>>    Obtaining a list of queues is a CUPS extension to IPP. Network
>>    printers do not support it.
>>
>> Firewall is open, sharing enabled, what "security enhancement" do I have to 
>> disable this time?
> If by "works locally" you mean i works on the LAN the server is in but
> not on another LAN containing the clients that is standard behavior for
> cups.
> 
Actually, locally meant "only on the loopback interface," get get much more 
local than that.

> To use cups to serve printers to clients in a different LAN in
> the /etc/cups/client.conf file you need to have a line:
> ServerName 70.238.70.20
> 
Not doing anything that fancy. Good tip, tho, I filed it in my list of things I 
might someday need to configure a system.

> where in this case 70.238.70.20 is the address of the server.
> Note: 70.238.70.25 is not address of my cups server.



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