On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:56:51AM -0500, Torrin wrote: > Good morning everybody, well at least morning over here in Cali. For > everybody else, Good afternoon, good evening and good night. > > I just installed cups and I was wondering if it's possible to have cups > run properly without having port 631 open. I don't like having ports > open, especially since this computer will be the only one printing to > this printer. I looked at some of the doc on http://www.cups.org and > didn't see anything. Any ideas? > 631 is ipp port. It's needed for admin and remote printing, you can enable it only for localhost (127.0.0.1) by adding Listen 127.0.0.1:631 in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf (there are many security options like allow/deny networks/hosts in this config file, but in your case, listen only on localhost will be the good choice). > Also, when I installed cups it said something about me needing to do a . > . . > > route add -net 224.0.0.0 netmask 240.0.0.0 dev <interface> > > What's up with that? I didn't see anything in the doc about that > either. That's for slp protocol (www.openslp.org), if you don't need it (I think it's not usefull in your case), don't add the route line and don't install slpd. > > You know, a howto would be nice right about now. Anyway, thanks in > advance for your insight. > Howto: apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd customize /etc/cups/cupsd.conf for security, it's easy to understand I think. Go to http://localhost:631/ and configure your printer echo test | lpr ... it works (theoritically...) > Oh, and if any of you use pine, I won't hold it against you. :) Mutt -- Easter-eggs Spécialiste GNU/Linux 44-46 rue de l'Ouest - 75014 Paris - France - Métro Gaité Phone: +33 (0) 1 43 35 00 37 - Fax: +33 (0) 1 41 35 00 76 mailto:elacour@easter-eggs.com - http://www.easter-eggs.com
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