This is for any newbies out there like me ... I spent days trying to figure out how to get a Gentoo linux laptop to print to a Gentoo server through Cups. I was consistently getting "connection refused" messages from the print server.
In order for the Cups server to accept incoming requests it is necessary to change Listen "127.0.0.1:631" to "Port 631". The default configuration binds the 631 port to Localhost resulting in all external port requests being refused. After making this change then edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf for the security settings you want to allow for external access. This may be obvious to most of you, but it drove me crazy until I figured it out ... Alan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.4.0 - Release Date: 1/06/2005 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
