<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have been using RedHat systems for print servers for a long time, but the new cups program is not<br>working for me.<br><br>I am unable to get my new RedHat system to share its printers with other RedHat systems or with my mac.<br><br>The new print server is running 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 with cups 1.3.7-8.el5_3.4<br><br>The clients are running 2.4.21-58.ELsmp and Mac OS 10.5.6<br><br>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,<div>the status of printing across the network does not change.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I am using gc-hp106ps as my test queue on the server. Printing to gc-hp106ps works from the server.<br><br>I have tried the Device URI with and without the :9100 port on the end.<br><br><div><b>lpstat -l -p gc-hp106ps</b><br><Printer gc-hp106ps><br>Info HP Laserjet 9000 with postscript driver<br>Location GeoChem 106<br>DeviceURI lpd://128.148.124.126:9100<br>State Idle<br>StateTime 1241550146<br>Accepting Yes<br>Shared Yes<br>JobSheets none none<br>QuotaPeriod 0<br>PageLimit 0<br>KLimit 0<br>OpPolicy default<br>ErrorPolicy stop-printer<br></Printer><br><br><br><b>cupsd.conf</b> has been edited to contain. <div><div>LogLevel debug</div><div><br></div><div># Administrator user group...</div><div>SystemGroup sys root</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div># Only listen for connections from the local machine.</div><div>Listen localhost:631</div><div>Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock</div><div><br></div><div># Show shared printers on the local network.</div><div>Browsing On</div><div>Browsing Yes</div><div>BrowseOrder allow,deny</div><div># (Change '@LOCAL' to 'ALL' if using directed broadcasts from another subnet.)</div><div><b>#BrowseAllow @LOCAL</b></div><div><b>BrowseAllow ALL</b></div><div><b>Allow ALL</b></div><div><br></div><div># Default authentication type, when authentication is required...</div><div>DefaultAuthType Basic</div><div><br></div><div># Restrict access to the server...</div><div><Location /></div><div> Order allow,deny</div><div> <b> Allow 127.0.0.1</b></div><div><b> Allow 128.subnet1.*</b></div><div><b> Allow 128.subnet2.*</b></div><div><b> Allow 128.subnet3.*</b></div><div><b> Allow 128.subnet4.*</b></div><div></Location></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Error messages on the RedHat client:</b><br><br>Network host 'newserver.network.brown.edu' is busy, down, or unreachable; will retry...<br><br><b>The Mac client reports:</b><br><br>Attempting to connect to server for printer gc-hp106ps<br>Network host server is busy;<br><br><b>The Mac' s log file contains:</b><br><br>D [05/May/2009:17:38:11 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost/printers/gc_hp101_color2<br>D [05/May/2009:17:38:11 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 17 status_code=0 (successful-ok)<br>D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST / HTTP/1.1<br>D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as using AuthRef<br>D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost:631/printers/gc_hp106___testing_duplexing<br>D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 15 status_code=0 (successful-ok)<br>D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] cupsdReadClient: 19 POST / HTTP/1.1<br>D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.<br>D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] Get-Printer-Attributes ipp://localhost:631/printers/gc_hp106<br>D [05/May/2009:17:38:12 -0400] cupsdProcessIPPRequest: 19 status_code=0 (successful-ok)</div><div><br></div><div><b>tail /var/log/cups/error_log</b> on the server</div><div><br></div><div><div>D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] Report: jobs-active=0</div><div>D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] Report: printers=102</div><div>D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] Report: printers-implicit=0</div><div>D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] Report: stringpool-string-count=6672</div><div>D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] Report: stringpool-alloc-bytes=31640</div><div>D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] Report: stringpool-total-bytes=149216</div><div>D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost...</div><div>D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "eth0" = geops2...</div><div>D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "lo" = localhost...</div><div>D [06/May/2009:10:45:19 -0400] cupsdNetIFUpdate: "eth0" = fe80::222:19ff:fe2b:</div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>