[cups] Accessing a parallel printer from a remote network

Phil Reynolds phil-cups at tinsleyviaduct.com
Fri Jul 17 14:32:32 PDT 2015


On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:27:07 -0400
Michael Sweet <msweet at apple.com> wrote:

> Phil,
> 
> You need to configure the list of host names that might be used by
> the computer sharing the parallel printer by adding ServerAlias lines
> to your cupsd.conf file, or disable Host: header validation (which
> exposes you to DNS rebinding attacks...) with the following command:
> 
>     cupsctl 'ServerAlias=*'

Well, I added a ServerAlias for the hostname. Now, no error is logged
but printing a test page fails: "The printer configuration is incorrect
or the printer no longer exists."

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Phil Reynolds
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