[Gllug] cups connection problem

[John Edwards]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:43:48AM +0100, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> Hi,
> I have two machines on local lan:
> 
> desktop 10.1.1.120 has ports 22 (ssh) and 631 (cupsd) open
> nmap from desktop -> desktop and netstat confirm this
> 
> nmap from laptop 10.1.1.3 -> 10.1.1.120 sees only port 22
> 
> 
> no internal firewalls AFAICT.
> 
> Printer is hosted on desktop, with local announce set on.
> Laptop print manager says "printer not responding".
> 
> 
> 
> Why can't the laptop see port 631 open ?

Does your CUPS server allow remote users to access it?

Many "desktop" style Linux distributions disabled some or all
remote access to CUPS and you need to enable it in cupsd.conf.


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