RE: [gentoo-user] Home Network Printing

[Michael Kintzios]

Not silly at all.  Yes, I have firewall on both - but the first thing I
did was to shut down the firewalls, just in case.
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Regards,
Mick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jolet [mailto:john@×××××.net]
> Sent: 01 December 2005 14:48
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Home Network Printing
>
>
> 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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