[cups] Unable to remotely add printer on version 1.4.2

Helge Blischke helgeblischke at web.de
Tue May 19 09:25:44 PDT 2015


Replace the „Allow All“ by „Allow @LOCAL“ to allow (administrative) access from all
local network interfaces.

Or, from the web interface on the local machine, check „allow remote administration“ 
in the administration tab.

Helge

> Am 19.05.2015 um 16:54 schrieb David Rider <david at weldonparts.com>:
> 
> 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>
> 
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> David Rider
> IT Manager
> Weldon Parts Inc.
> (405) 254-4503
> 
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