[cups] Unable to remotely add printer on version 1.4.2

David Rider david at weldonparts.com
Tue May 19 07:54:00 PDT 2015


I recently upgrade from RHEL 5 to RHEL6 and with that a new version of 
CUPS.  The previous version of CUPS I was using was 1.3.7 which I had no 
problem adding printers from remotely.  Here is my cupsd.conf file file.

# Show general information in error_log.
LogLevel info
PreserveJobFiles Yes
# Allow remote access
Port 631
# Disable printer sharing and shared printers.
Browsing Off
<Location />
   # Allow remote administration...
   Order allow,deny
   Allow From All
</Location>
<Location /jobs>
   Allow All
</Location>
<Location /classes/name>
   Allow All
</Location>
<Location /printers>
   Allow From All
</Location>
<Location /printers/name>
   Allow From All
</Location>
<Location /admin>
   AuthType Basic
   AuthClass System
   # Allow remote administration...
   Order allow,deny
   Allow From All
</Location>
# Allow remote access to the configuration files...
<Location /admin/conf>
   AuthType Basic
   Require user @SYSTEM
   Order allow,deny
   Allow From All
</Location>
<Policy default>
   # Job-related operations must be done by the owner or an adminstrator...
   <Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job 
Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription 
Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job 
Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job>
     Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
     Order deny,allow
   </Limit>
   # All administration operations require an adminstrator to 
authenticate...
   <Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Set-Printer-Attributes 
Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job 
Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer 
Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job 
Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Add-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Class 
CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs CUPS-Set-Default 
CUPS-Add-Device CUPS-Delete-Device>
     AuthType Basic
     Require user @SYSTEM
     Order deny,allow
</Limit>
   <Limit All>
   Order deny,allow
   </Limit>
</Policy>

-- 
David Rider
IT Manager
Weldon Parts Inc.
(405) 254-4503


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