Re: CUPS assuming I'm the admin instead of prompting for user/pass

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:12:40 -0600, Kent West wrote:

> No, on further tinkering, that doesn't seem to be quite the issue. I'm
> getting different Home pages at various times, and I just now realized
> that if I start at localhost:631, sometime I wind up at an IPADDRESS:631
> which is not the IPAddress of my localhost box. Then if I try to browse
> to http://MYLOCALIP:631 I get a "can't establish connection to the
> server at THATADDRESS".

That's what happens here.

http://localhost:631 → works
http://192.168.0.154:631 → does not work

> It seems that CUPS thinks my localhost IP address is something different
> than what it actually is.

Mmm, or can be that CUPS default settings only allow connections coming 
from the own machine and not from other network hosts (look at "/etc/cups/
cupsd.conf" file, variable "Listen localhost:631").

Greetings,

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Camaleón