Re: OT: remote cups printing

[Jeff Elkins <jeffelkins@earthlink.net>]

On Friday 23 January 2004 2:02 am, Stephen Cormier wrote:
> On January 21, 2004 09:57 pm, Jeff Elkins wrote:
> > When printing to a remote cups server (under kde3.1) I'm asked for a
> > user/password combo...everything is rejected, including the root
> > password for the cups server. Both machines are on the same subnet,
> > (192.168.0).
> >
> > In the cupsd.conf:
> >
> > <Location /printers>
> > AuthType None
> >  Order Deny,Allow
> >  Deny From None
> >  Allow From All
> > </Location>
> >
> > Shouldn't this turn off password authorization? Ideally, this is what
> > I'm looking for.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jeff
>
> I put the settings at the top of same section in the file and never am
> asked for a password when I print, my settings are a bit different as
> well.
>
> <Location />
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> Allow From 192.168.0.0/24
> </Location>

Thanks.  Modifying the <Location /> stanza made the problem go away.

Jeff