cupsd.conf configuration question/problem

[rance at frontiernet.net]

I had a working cups server using samba to serve printers to my windows clients, and it was all working fine.


Then I got a linux client, and I installed cups on it, and added my printeservers name in the client.conf file for cups.

simple enough until I got errors from being unable to connect.

my cups clients are unable to connect to my cups server, they cant discover printers, they cant run commands like lpstat

I am convinced this is cupsd.conf configuration problem since the default cupsd.conf is not set to allow this.

I changed the port directive to two listen directives, one for localhost, and the other for my internal net.

I edited the <location /> directive and added an allow from 192.168.0.*

ive played with browsing options, but I dont think I understand what they are supposed to do and what I should be seeing from changing a particular option well enough to know if I've helped or hurt the situation.

all I know is that linux clients cant print to the linux print server.

Could someone who has done this before please share a working cupsd.conf or at least point me to some clear instructions on how to get this type of setup working?


Ive read so much that its starting to run together and none of it specifically addresses my problem.

If I try to connect to servername:631 instead of localhost:631 I get a forbidden 403 page

and if I try an lpstat from a client I get "get-jobs failed: client-error-forbidden"