CUPS and IPP Protocol

I have a home network consisting of a Linux machine and two XP Home
machines.

My HP Photosmart is connected to my Linux box with Samba configured to
use CUPS.

All machines can use the printer via the normal Windows share but I
would like to try out the IPP protocol prior to purchasing a proper
printer server device.

Does the CUPS server need any special settings to allow connection via IPP.

Geoff Lane

Geoff Lane <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Does the CUPS server need any special settings to allow connection via IPP.

If I recall, there's now an option in the web interface that enables
remote access to the server.

In my case I'd already hacked the cupsd.conf to allow it anyway. It's
pretty much a case of uncommenting anything/everything that refers to
"@LOCAL", and making sure that you have "Listen 631" rather than "Listen
localhost:631".

Hope this helps,
Chris

Chris Davies wrote:

>> Does the CUPS server need any special settings to allow connection via IPP.
>
> If I recall, there's now an option in the web interface that enables
> remote access to the server.
>
> In my case I'd already hacked the cupsd.conf to allow it anyway. It's
> pretty much a case of uncommenting anything/everything that refers to
> "@LOCAL", and making sure that you have "Listen 631" rather than "Listen
> localhost:631".
>
> Hope this helps,

Yes, thanks Chris.

I am trying to get a Vista laptop to print via a network, not my machine
so drawn out procedure.

I've managed to get Linux and XP machines printing using IPP but the
Vista machine is one step forward then one back; also the drivers are a
problem with Vista as well.

Strangely I have a problem getting onto the CUPS web admin page, was
getting access forbidden message; launched Firefox as root user then all
pages OK except the ADMIN page.

Ended up using the gnome printer utility and WEBMIN for Samba.

Geoff Lane

Geoff Lane wrote:

> Strangely I have a problem getting onto the CUPS web admin page, was
> getting access forbidden message; launched Firefox as root user then all
> pages OK except the ADMIN page.

Solved, looked at the cupsd.conf file and realised it was only allowing
access from localhost, I did think that localhost, 127.0.0.1 and the
locally assigned IP address were all the same but now realise different.

Thanks for pointers.

Geoff Lane