Kenneth Jacker wrote:

> I've been trying to get remote printing between two RH7.2 systems to
> work with /iptables/.  I've tried various combinations allowing ports
> 515 and 721:731, but it still doesn't work.
> 
> If I open up *all* destination ports (boo!) coming from the remote
> printing machine with IP address "a.b.c.d", it works:
> 
>   iptables -t filter -A INPUT -p tcp -s a.b.c.d  --dport 0: -j ACCEPT
> 
> Also, if I request remote printing via /lpr/ to "a.b.c.d" from a
> non-Linux machine (DU/Tru64) is works fine. So, I don't feel the
> problem is in the remote machine.  It's got to be an incorrect
> /iptables/ configuration!

To debug your iptables script and find out which ports you need to open 
try 'iptables -I INPUT 1 -s thehost.youwantto.print.from -j LOG' and do 
a 'tail -f /var/log/messages'.

HTH

Martin
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