Re: [gentoo-user] Home Network Printing

[John Jolet]

silly question, but...any firewalling on the host?
or client for that matter?
On Dec 1, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Michael Kintzios wrote:

> Thank you Holly,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Holly Bostick [mailto:motub@××××××.nl]
>> Sent: 01 December 2005 13:33
>> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Home Network Printing
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> What I see is:
>>
>> I assume the printer is connected to the server--- but the server
>> only
>> allows connections from localhost (itself), and 192.168.0.2.
>
> Yes on all counts.
>
>> If 192.168.0.2 is not the network IP address of the client (host 1),
>> then the connection is denied.
>
> 192.168.0.2 is the LAN address of the client (host 1).
>
>> If the printer is connected to host 1... well, that only allows
>> connections from localhost (itself). Connections from everywhere else
>> are refused.
>
> The printer is physically connected to host 2 which acts as the server
> with IP address 102.168.0.3
>
>> So what I would suggest is that the server allow connections from the
>> network as a whole, or the specific network IPs of the
>> various networked
>> clients.
>>
> [snip]
>>
>> So if you have more than one machine on the network, you
>> might consider
>> changing the "Allow From" statements to read something like
>>
>>  Allow From 192.168.0.*
>
> Each machine has only one NIC which connects them to the
> router/LAN/Internet.  The router (netgear ADSL thingy) is 192.168.0.1
> and acts both as the Internet gateway and the DNS for the machines on
> the LAN.  I would rather allow access to explicit IP addresses, in
> this
> case 192.168.0.2 which is the client.
>
> Thanks for the heads up on the "HostNameLookups On".  I'll try it
> tonight - although setting the IP address would remove one more thing
> for me to get wrong.  ;-)
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
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