Re: [gentoo-user] CUPd for all.

[Scott Taylor]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 17:33 -0500, Adam wrote:
> I would like to share my Printer with all my Linux machines and it's
> on my main client machine with CUPS. I hear there is an easy way to do
> this, but I have no idea where to look or which method to take.

Here are the lines to change in your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf of the various
machines, I'll assume your lan is 192.168.0.* and you want it to
announce itself to that whole subnet.

On the server to be the print server:

BrowseAddress 192.168.0.255
BrowseAllow 192.168.0.0/24

<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 192.168.0.
</Location>

You might want to add a similar "Allow From" line for the
<Location /admin>, or perhaps only allow one or two individual addresses
to be able to modify the printer settings.

On client machines, if you don't have the server announcing, or if the
server is in a different subnet, you can force them to ask a particular
print server for the devices it has available by specifying its address
manually like so:

BrowsePoll 192.168.0.6:631



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