HELP: Configure CUPS server to use a proxy server

[Helge Blischke]

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


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