On Sat, 2009-08-15 at 10:24 -0500, ogardarsson wrote: > [/quote]I appreciate that. I thought Ubuntu used Gnome rather than KFE or the > lightweights like XFCE, but in any case the Fedora CUPS defaults are > likely to be common across most distros. And distros using CUPS will > have similar tools for configuring CUPS: now you know where to start > looking. > > Martin[/quote] > > Actually I looked into the web config that comes with cups. It allows > one to access these settings like "Share published printers connected > to this system". It was already active. > > In that case "nmap" should show port 631 as open and sudo lsof | grep -i 'cupsd.*TCP' should output a line or two showing that CUPS is listening for print requests: $ sudo lsof | grep -i 'cupsd.*TCP' [sudo] password for kiwi: cupsd 2625 root 13u IPv4 13958 0t0 TCP *:ipp (LISTEN) cupsd 2625 root 14u IPv6 13959 0t0 TCP *:ipp (LISTEN) I trimmed a bit of space from those lines so they don't wrap. Telnet should also connect to CUPS with the command telnet localhost 631 Here's what I got: $ telnet localhost 631 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. >>>> enter ctrl-]<RETURN> telnet> >>>> enter quit<RETURN> Connection closed. If neither of these succeed, then the web config is being economical with the truth and your cupsd is not listening for TCP connections.. Martin
