On 09/12/2018 03:55:16 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:50:36 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On one machine - called SERVER - I have a USB printer which works
just
> fine with CUPS.
> I've tried to make it "shared". This printer has the name
USB_printer.
>
> On the other machine, which has no physical printer itself, I just
> want to add a remote printer which
> uses USB_printer on the SERVER.
>
> If I try to configure this remote printer, my first problem is its
> name (URL)
> I've tried ipp://SERVER:631/printers/USB_printer but when I try to
> print to it,
> I always get "printer cannot be located"
>
> Would anybody be so kind to share (the relevant parts) of his/her
> cupsd.conf on the server as well as
> on the client?
Have you allowed access to the server from the local network?
Something
like this in cupsd.conf
# Restrict access to the server...
<Location />
Order allow,deny
Allow localhost
Allow 192.168.1.*
</Location>
Thanks Neil,
do I need this on the client machine, as well?
(I do have it on the server machine)
Helmut
