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On 11/07/11 21:06, Peter Childs wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 11 July 2011 19:40, Michael E. Rentell
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Has anyone found the firewall app on Ubuntu ver 11.04 with
Unity?<br>
Something is blocking my access to samba shared printers and I
want to check.<br>
MikeR<br>
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<div>Its not so much the firewall but default Cups settings. I'm
guessing your not on the local machine.</div>
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<div>Go to the printer server and visit localhost:631 on the local
machine and under Admin select "Allow Remote Admin" </div>
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<div>Plan B.... load System-config-printer under server, settings
select allow remote admin.</div>
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<div>Plan C... Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and edit the line "Listen
localhost:631" to "Port 631" or something else appropriate...</div>
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<div>Peter.</div>
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<font size="-1"><font face="sans-serif">Very many thanks for that
Peter. It worked.<br>
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Actually what I am doing is migrating from PCLinuxOS to Ubuntu
11.04 with Unity. Not by choice, but the latest on-line upgrades
to KDE in PCLOS stopped my sound card working properly and
nothing I could do improved the situation. I need the sound,
especially the microphone as I use Skype for on-line meetings -
it went dead. As a (now former) KDE slave I then tried Mageia
(too new - same problem), Mandriva (too old - same problem),
SuSE same problem. I came to the conclusion that it is the most
recent version of KDE which is the problem, not the distro. So I
went for the world standard and after a steep learning curve
with Unity am now all set up. <br>
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But I must have Windows for my Sage accounts program so I run XP
under VirtualBox. That all worked fine except that my usual link
line for printers didn't function and if I install the printers
directly to the WinXP they are not available to the Linux setup
when both are running.<br>
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But thanks to your advice everything now works exactly as I want
it to. It seems that even if you tick the 'shared' box on
natty's printer setup, it still seems that it isn't available.
You have to use the CUPS config stuff on localhost:631 to
complete the transaction.<br>
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Being new to Ubuntu I didn't know that. I do now.<br>
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Cheers<br>
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MikeR<br>
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