Connection refused

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Fri May 16 04:33:18 PDT 2008


Friedemann Brauer wrote:
> I have a printer attached to a computer running xubuntu 7.10 using cups. I configured this for shared printer use, in cupsd.conf , according to the cups documentation:
> ..
> # Allow remote access
> Port 631
> Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
> # Share local printers on the local network.
> Browsing On
> BrowseOrder allow,deny
> BrowseAllow all
> BrowseAddress @LOCAL
> DefaultAuthType Basic
> <Location />
>   # Allow shared printing...
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow all
> </Location>
> ..
> 
> When I try to print from a machine that runs RedHat 7.1, I get the error message:
> cannot open connection - Connection refused
> 
> Are there special directives for cupsd.conf to make this work, or are the two systems just incompatible?
> 
> Thanks,
> Friedemann
> 

Look at the security settings of your xubuntu machine (firewall etc.).
Looks like the port 631 is not accessible from the outside-

Helge

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