[Wylug-help] Network Printing (Cups and HP/HPLIP) On Ubuntu

[Stephen Patterson]

On 18 Apr 06, Dave Fisher (wylug-help at davefisher.co.uk) wrote:
> As far as I am aware, the print server has no firewall running on it and cups
> is not running under inetd.  On the other hand, previous experience reminds me
> that cups has quite a bit of its own access and authentication.
> 
> I presume that there is some simple (and safe) way of allowing print jobs to be
> submitted from IP addresses on the LAN, but I've used up all the time I set
> aside to get this thing sorted.

The /etc/cups/cupsd.conf contains access control sections to set who can access
your printers, you can only set that bit up by editing the file manually.

I have this, which lets cups be accessed from anywhere (the lan's firewalled off
so no risk of odd print jobs coming in.

<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From None
Allow From All
# Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>

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