[cups.general] making BrowsePoll work

[Michael R Sweet]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> I've got a CentOS5 machine acting as a cups_server.  What'd I'd like to be able to do is configure all of our client machines in their cupsd.conf's:
> BrowsePoll cups_server
> 
> I can't find any incarnation of 'BrowseAllow' that makes this work.  Clients (on different subnets) fail with error logged:
> [cups-polld cups_server:631] CUPS-Get-Printers failed: Forbidden
> 
> I even tried some black magic on cups_server's cupsd.conf:
> <Policy default>
> ..
>  <Limit CUPS-Get-Printers>
>     Order deny,allow
>     Allow all
>   </Limit>
> </Policy>
> 
> but that didn't help either.
> 
> Hints/advice?

Did you enable printer sharing on the server?  It needs to allow
remote access (via the <Location /> section) for clients to be able
to print...

Also, if the clients are on a different subnet, make sure to check the
"allow printing from the Internet" box, too...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer