On 2023-05-11 18:24:39 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:58:56PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-05-11 12:08:01 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > Aha!!!! Got it, geany evince okular etc can now print from bpi54! Removing > > > the Listen localhost:631 directive from /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and > > > inserting a > > > > > > Listen 192.168.xx.yy:631 > > > > > > made the localhost:631/printers on this machine show up in FF on bpi54, > > > all > > > 5 choices from this machine. > > > > Any explanation? > > Seems obvious enough to me. CUPS on bpi54 was only listening to > loopback (localhost), but Gene wanted to print through it remotely. > So he had to make it listen to the network instead.
My question was more on why does this affect localhost:631/printers? > My questions would be: > > 1) Can you put *both* Listen lines in, to keep loopback working? The cupsd.conf(5) man page says: "Multiple Listen directives can be provided to listen on multiple addresses." > 2) Failing that, can you use 0.0.0.0 as the Listen address, to listen on > all interfaces? That's the normal convention. According to the cupsd.conf(5) man page, you can use "Listen *:631". -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
