At 06:59 AM 1/14/04, Bryan Phinney wrote:

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 10:59 pm, Frank Bax wrote:

> /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
> BrowseInterval 0
> Browsing Off

Should have some additional lines:
LogLevel Info
TempDir /var/spool/cups/tmp
Port 631
Browsing On
#(You need to turn browsing on if you want the autodetect stuff to work on
#other networked sysstems.  Your choice.)
BrowseAddress @LOCAL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] broadcasts to all non point to point interfaces, so your lan but not
#your dial up connection.
BrowseDeny All
BrowseAllow 127.0.0.1
BrowseAllow @LOCAL
#This denies browsing for all but localhost and local interfaces.
BrowseOrder deny,allow
<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From @LOCAL
</Location>

<Location /admin>
#
# You definitely will want to limit access to the administration functions.
# The default configuration requires a local connection from a user who
# is a member of the system group to do any admin tasks.  You can change
# the group name using the SystemGroup directive.
#

AuthType Basic
AuthClass System

## Restrict access to local domain
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1

#Encryption Required
</Location>

Can you try adding these lines and then restart cupsd and try to add a printer
again, see if it works, if not, check the error/access log with the new log
level set to see if you get additional error messages.
--
Bryan Phinney
Software Test Engineer


Thanks Bryan! I am able to add printers again. This looks like one of those cases where one says "That was easy" when the solution is presented, getting there is the hard part.


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