making BrowsePoll work

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Aug 28 12:21:49 PDT 2007


Rex Dieter wrote:

> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:

>> If you poll the server from a client, you need to make sure that the
>> server actually does allow that specific client (or a group of that
>> contains that client), and that it does indeed share the printer.
>> 
>> Check if '<Location />' and '<Location /printers> or not restricted for
>> the polling client.
> 
> I'll double-check.

Sure enough, cupsd.conf contained:

<Location />
  # Allow shared printing...
  Order allow,deny
  Allow @LOCAL
</Location>

which wasn't enough, I had to add additional Allow directives for each of
our subnets.  Thanks!

-- Rex




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