HELP: Configure CUPS server to use a proxy server

[Bruce Dudek]

The proxy server works on port 631 when using a Windows machie to make the
connection. I just can't get the CUPSD process on the Linux machine to use
the proxy server.

Bruce Dudek
brucedudek at yahoo.com


On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:19:56 +0200, Helge Blischke wrote:

> Bruce Dudek wrote:
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> Does anyone know how to configure CUPS to use a proxy server to connect to
>> another CUPS server? Here is my problem... I have a CUPS print server on a
>> RedHat 9.0 box at home and I want to print to it from my RedHat 9.0 box at
>> work. The problem that I have is the CUPS daemon tries to connect directly
>> to my IP address at home instead of routing through the proxy server at
>> work. I can see this using a netstat -an | grep 631. I have set my
>> http_proxy environment variable to proxy.mycompany.com:8000 and that did
>> not help. I have set the proxies using /usr/bin/gnome-network-preferences
>> as root and that did not help. I have even defined the http_proxy variable
>> in the /etc/init.d/cups startup script. I am able to print to the home
>> CUPS server using my Windows machine at work without a problem so I do
>> know that the proxies do allow it. I have been unable to find anything
>> about configuring proxies in the documentation but I did find some
>> references to proxies in the status messages. Would anyone have a solution
>> to this or be able to point me in the right direction to solve this
>> problem?
>> 
> I think you'd have to configure your proxy server to also handle port
> 631.
> 
> Helge