[Wylug-help] Lost network printing

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Tue Jan 10 17:58:05 GMT 2006


On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Stephen Patterson wrote:

> On 09 Jan 06, Anne Wilson (cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk) wrote:
>> No doubt it is something I did, while trying to find my way around
>> debian, but I've lost the connection to my networked printers.  They
>> were working fine a few days ago.
>
> I've recently managed to do something similar in debian, though I was hacking
> about quite a bit in the cups config, so I just blamed myself *grin*
>
> Seeing as your client can see the printers as present, I'd suggest having a look
> at some of the access control sections in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, especially
> <Location /> and <Location /printers> the syntax is a lot like apache's
> Allow/Deny configuration.
>
> If this doesn't make too much sense, you could post your config files & I'll
> have a look at them.

But if the client.conf is specifying a different server, than all of the rest
of the config files on the client machine should be irrelevent.  Has anything
been changed on the server?

jh

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