[Gllug] cups connection problem

salsaman at xs4all.nl salsaman at xs4all.nl
Tue Jan 19 12:25:55 UTC 2010


On Tue, January 19, 2010 09:53, Tethys wrote:
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>
> salsaman at xs4all.nl writes:
>
>>Why can't the laptop see port 631 open ?
>
> Probably because the desktop is only listening on the lo intenface.
> Run "netstat -ntl | grep 631" to verify this.
>
> For example, my print server is listening on all interfaces, and
> hence the output looks like this:
>
> 	tcp    0      0 0.0.0.0:631           0.0.0.0:*          LISTEN
>
> My desktop, however, is only listening on lo, hence the 127.0.0.1:
>
> 	tcp    0      0 127.0.0.1:631         0.0.0.0:*          LISTEN
>
> The confusing thing is that your cupsd.conf appears to look OK, and
> I would expect it to be listening on all interfaces. I'd guess the
> next step would be to break out tcpdump and start checking what's
> coming in over the wire.
>
> Tet
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But I already checked with netstat:

tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:631          0.0.0.0:*            LISTEN
...
tcp6       0      0 :::631               :::*                 LISTEN
...
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:631          0.0.0.0:*




Salsaman.



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