I've been trying to use redhat-config-printer to enable sharing of the printer across a network. My understanding is that /etc/cups/cupsd.conf gets overwritten every time it restarts, so editing it is futile. But even after I specify sharing, the written file has the following line at the bottom: Listen 127.0.0.1:631 If the server will only listen on the local loopback, won't it make printer requests across the network impossible? On a related subject, if you find that redhat-config-printer is not updating your CUPS configuration files after sharing is enabled, see bug #88291 for a workaround. Chris