I had same situation you did and here is how I fixed it. 
When I open up the MCC to share my net connection with the computers on my 
lan, the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is rewritten so that no one has access to 
the printer.. not even the root user! So I rewrite it this way: 

<Location /> 
AuthType None 
Order Deny,Allow 
Allow From All 
</Location> 

<Location /admin> 
AuthType None 
Allow From 127.0.0.1 
#Allow From All 
Deny From All 
Order Deny,Allow 
</Location> 

So now only the root user can modify the printer config but everyone can see 
the config (http://127.0.0.1:631) and access the printer. 

I didn't figure this out all by myself.. the linuxprinting website help a LOT! 
..So I recommand everyone having ANY problem with printing to search there. 
Here is the forum link: http://www.linuxprinting.org/newsportal/ 

This is where it came from. 

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=5290&highlight=


















On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:03 am, Brian Parish wrote:
> Installed 9.0 on my server last night.  It has a local printer attached
> which I configured without problems using printerdrake.  I can print to
> it locally but no other machines on the LAN can now access it.
> Printerdrake on the client machines assures me that there is nothing to
> configure and remote CUPS printers on the same LAN will magically
> appear.
>
> They don't.
>
> I guess this is the usual problem with GUI's - what to do when they
> don't work.  Has anyone met this?  Even better fixed it?
>
> The setup on the client machines has not been changed, so I guess it's
> the server which has stopped talking rather than clients not listening.
>
> Tried dropping the firewall in case that was interfering, but no change.
>
> TIA
> Brian


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