Remote Administration

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

This is a copy of a question that I asked in a Debian forum but I did not receive any answers so I am now posting to your forum. The system information was in the previous post.

System is AlphaStation 400 running console only ( this is why I would like remote access).
Debian 3.1 (Sarge)
Linux Kernel 2.4-27-2-generic
Cupsys version 1.1.23-10

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Hi All,

I will partly answer my own questions. A colleague mentioned the web interface could run remotely ie not on the local PC, also I could use Lynx but he was not sure about the results. So I downloaded cupsys using the following command

apt-get install cupsys

the installation seemed to be satisfactory.

Lynx can access cups via http://localhost:631 although there are with the problems (finger probably) with  the interface.

So I tried from another PC on the same network
http://name:631 or http://192.168.123.xxx:631 Permission Access denied

Editted the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on the alpha.

Changes in file

<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
Allow From 192.168.123.192

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Any Help would be gratefully received because once This problem is solved. I have many others questions but I would to tackle the problems one by one  so That I hopefully will learn from the experience. So far It has been a very frustrating experience, many days of googling but still not working. I have used linux several years ago (Slackware 3.0 & 4.0) managed to get the local printers working correctly. I can still get the local printer working using LPD but eventually I would like to get a remote printer on a router working.

I thought of just commenting out the under restrict access but to make it more sure I added the line
Allow From 192.168.123.192

Restarted the daemon

/etc/init.d/cupsys restart

(not as the cups manual stated /etc/init.d/cups restart)

But still I cannot access from the remote PC

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access this resource

What Am I doing wrong or missing. Is the problem as simple that the remote is sending the remote root and password combination and of the the password is different?


Best Wishes

Jim R.