Re: Cannot connect to localhost:631

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

On 06/16/2011 12:15 PM, AG wrote:
> On 16/06/11 15:36, lee wrote:
> > AG<computing.account@googlemail.com> writes:
> >
> > > On Wheezy, I have lost the capability of connecting to the CUPS server
> > > via the web-page using localhost:631. The error message is "cannot
> > > connect: connection to the server refused".
> > Did you check the configuration of cups to see which port it´s using? Is
> > cups actually running?
>
> Yes, the server *is* running. Below is the cups.conf file - doesn't seem
> to be anything about ports in here except for sockets in /var/run/cups,
> nor permissions to access the server. Is this in a different file?
>
> LogLevel warn
> MaxLogSize 0
> SystemGroup lpadmin
> Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
> Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
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I have at the top of cupsd.conf a line it seems you are missing:

# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
 Listen localhost:631


Wayne