[clue-tech] fighting with CUPS

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Monday 04 August 2008 13:01, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 12:32 -0400, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > I had CUPS working here on a server box,  which is currently down,  and
> > am trying to get it working to the extent of being able to plug the
> > printer into my laptop here.
> >
> > I'm getting 403 errors.  I can't seem to locate what I need to fiddle
> > with to fix that.
>
> Edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and make sure you have the following line:
>
> Listen localhost:631

There's a line in there that says "Port 631" which the nearby comments seem to 
indicate should do that.

> Then restart the cups server.  On Fedora:
>
> sudo service cups restart
>
> Then access it via:
>
> http://localhost:631
>
> That should at least get you to the front page of the cups configurator.

Trying to get at it by way of a browser gets me a 403 error,  as well as me 
finding them in the logs when I set loglevel to debug,  the error shows up on 
every attempt to print something.

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