Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 187703
Unable to share printer in FC5
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:29 EST
Description of problem: Installed FC5, and setup printer for printing. Printer is able to print locally. Started system-config-printer to try and get printer to share: Got error message No match for USB device: mfr "Brother" model "HL-1850_1870N series" desc "" cmdset "PJL,PCL,PCLXL,POSTSCRIPT" Please report this message in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Choose 'foomatic' as the component. Clicked on printer, clicked on sharing Clicked on "This queue is available to other computers" Added 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 Clicked OK [Closed network window] Clicked OK [Closed share window] Clicked OK [ Closed "Edit a print quueue"] Clicked APPLY Checked netstat -natp Saw that cups was still listening on localhost only. Checked /etc/cups/ file and saw that nothing was there that I had put in. Restarted tool, repeated steps Redid the changes and put in /24 instead. Saw this get changed to 255.255.255.0 Cups began listening on all networks. Weird.
There are two unrelated issues here: 1. That sharing a queue did not work, and 2. That your printer is not automatically detected
This is number 1.
Yeah, it looks like the CUPS "Allow from @IF(ifname)" doesn't quite work right in FC5. I kept getting a "403 Permission Denied" when configured that way. As soon as I changed the configuration from Interface to IP Address, it worked great.
Derek, the original description didn't mention '@IF(ifname)' -- perhaps you are seeing a separate bug? Anyway, please attach the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf that exhibits the problem, and tell me how to see the '403 Permission Denied' error. Thanks.
Created attachment 130675 [details] cupsd configuration that causes 403 errors Yeah, it could be a separate bug, but it sounded similar -- especially the fact that changing to a network/netmask solved the problem for me. As for how to see the 403 Permission Denied error, just try to access http://<cupsd-ip>:631/printers/printer from a host on 'vmnet8' or 'vmnet1' and you'll see it. Accessing /printers works fine... But then when you click on "printer" it gives you a 403. (If you can't tell, this was an attempt to get my vmware guest system to print using my linux-host cups configuration.. and it was working just fine in FC3 until I updated my machine the other day).
Thanks. Reported upstream (with fix): http://cups.org/str.php?L1758
Please try this test update: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-June/msg00081.html You should be able to try this out using this command, as root: yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update 'cups*'
Anyway, works here.
Oops, sorry, forgot to respond to this. Yes, I updated and yes this fixed it. Thanks