printing across the network

[Chris Aitken <aitken@ontera.net>]

Conrad Newton wrote:

> > From Chris Aitken on Wednesday, 2004-12-08 at 22:27:43 -0500:
>  
>
> > I want to print from my backup PC to the printer attached to my 
> > production PC.
> >
> > The backup PC is running rh 8.0. The prod PC runs knoppix 3.3.
> >    
>
> Does the backup PC run CUPS as its printing software?
>  
Hmmm. Maybe not. I ran 'cupsd' as root and got a file not found or somesuch.

> If so, the print queues on the production server should
> already be visible from the backup PC.
>
> If so, the main issue is that your production server
> needs to give permission to the backup PC to print.
> You do this by including the following lines in
> /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
>
> <Location />
> Encryption IfRequested
> Satisfy All
> Order deny,allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> Allow From <IP of backup PC>
> </Location>
>  
OK. I did that.

> All of these lines should be there already except for
>
>   Allow From <IP of backup PC>
>
> where you need to replace <IP of backup PC> with your values.
>  
Done.

Chris

> Conrad