[cups.general] Cups 1.3.7-8, service to clients

[Margaret Doll]

I have been using RedHat systems for print servers for a long time,  
but the new cups program is not
working for me.

I am unable to get my new RedHat system to share its printers with  
other RedHat systems or with my mac.

The new print server is running 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 with cups  
1.3.7-8.el5_3.4

The clients are running 2.4.21-58.ELsmp and Mac  OS 10.5.6

I  created the print queues on the new print server using the gui  
printer configuration.  I believe that is system-config-printer.     
The server settings have been set to "Share published printers".  I  
have selinux disabled.  I have iptables and ip6tables set to allow  
connections on port 631.  If I turn off both ip services,
the status of printing across the network does not change.


I am using gc-hp106ps as my test queue on the server.  Printing to gc- 
hp106ps works from the server.

I have tried the Device URI with and without the :9100 port on the end.

lpstat -l -p gc-hp106ps
<Printer gc-hp106ps>
Info HP Laserjet 9000 with postscript driver
Location GeoChem 106
DeviceURI lpd://128.148.124.126:9100
State Idle
StateTime 1241550146
Accepting Yes
Shared Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
OpPolicy default
ErrorPolicy stop-printer
</Printer>


cupsd.conf  has been edited to contain.
LogLevel debug

# Administrator user group...
SystemGroup sys root


# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock

# Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing On
Browsing Yes
BrowseOrder allow,deny
# (Change '@LOCAL' to 'ALL' if using directed broadcasts from another  
subnet.)
#BrowseAllow @LOCAL
BrowseAllow ALL
Allow ALL

# Default authentication type, when authentication is required...
DefaultAuthType Basic

# Restrict access to the server...
<Location />
   Order allow,deny
         Allow 127.0.0.1
         Allow 128.subnet1.*
         Allow 128.subnet2.*
         Allow 128.subnet3.*
         Allow 128.subnet4.*
</Location>


Error messages on the RedHat client:

Network host 'newserver.network.brown.edu' is busy, down, or  
unreachable; will retry...

The Mac client reports:

Attempting to connect to server for printer gc-hp106ps
Network host server is busy;

The Mac' s log file contains:

D [05/May/2009:17:38:11 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost/ 
printers/gc_hp101_color2
D [05/May/2009:17:38:11 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 17  
status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as  using  
AuthRef
D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost: 
631/printers/gc_hp106___testing_duplexing
D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 15  
status_code=0 (successful-ok)
D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 19 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data  
provided.
D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost: 
631/printers/gc_hp106
D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 19  
status_code=0 (successful-ok)

tail /var/log/cups/error_log  on the server

D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] Report: jobs-active=0
D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] Report: printers=102
D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] Report: printers-implicit=0
D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] Report: stringpool-string-count=6672
D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=31640
D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=149216
D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost...
D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "eth0" = geops2...
D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost...
D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "eth0" =  
fe80::222:19ff:fe2b:


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.cups.org/pipermail/cups/attachments/20090506/2962709a/attachment-0001.html>