Stupid question. Is whatever printing daemon you're using even listening on the port its supposed to listen on? (netstat -an)
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > also, what printing system are you using? CUPS? CUPS-LPD (usually port 515 > through inetd or the like and then accessing the CUPS daemon)? LPD? LPRNG? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alan Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 10:48 PM > Subject: Networking / security problem in gentoo > > > > Well, my son is upset because he can't print to my printer since I > > went to gentoo. He gets a message : > > lp: unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable > > > > When I try it from a different system, I get : > > connection to 'earthman' failed - Connection refused > > job 'cfA845starman.oplnk.net' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed > > > > Thinking about this, I realized that I don't understand the gentoo > security > > model. Apparently they don't use inetd, but reading through the docs it > wasn't > > clear what they *do* use. I suspect that I have over-secured stuff by > accident, > > but I don't know where to start. Can anyone give me a clue? (yes, I admit > it, I > > am clueless... sigh) > > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > | Alan K. Jackson | To see a World in a Grain of Sand | > > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, | > > | www.ajackson.org | Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand | > > | Houston, Texas | And Eternity in an hour. - Blake | > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
