On Friday 13 August 2004 02:27 am, Jared Anderson wrote:
ok all is all right with the world now.
Mac OS/X is playing nicely with CUPS and it was my fault
not having had a Mac too long, it was the interface that screwed me up.
there is a little right-arrow button that has a label by it that says "shared
printers". after i clicked that button my EPSON printer on my linux box
showed up.
I also found out how to "enable" the root account, so I could change
the /etc/hosts file to add in my network at home.
So now all is right with the world.
I can now say, as soon as we get my wife's quicken data off the windoze box
that I can then start attending windows anonymous meetings...
Oh ... isn't that a LUG meeting? xLUG == "Windows Anonymous"
Anyway I can then start counting the months that I will have been Windows
Free. What a relief.
Jerry
> I have a shared printer using cups:
>
> edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf on host with computer to allow your host:
>
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> Allow From 192.168.1.*
>
>
> I have also got cups installed on my clients.
> edit /etc/cups/clients.conf
>
> ServerName 'printserver' # or whatever the hostname/ip is of the box with
> printer attached.
>
> hope this helps....
>
> --------------------)> oRiGiNaL MeSsAgE <(--------------------
>
> From ---------------)> Jerry Davis
> Date ---------------)> Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:30:58 -0500
> Subject ------------)> Re: iBook with Airport and Linux network
>
> > On Thursday 12 August 2004 09:13 pm, Jay Jacobson wrote:
> > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Jerry Davis wrote:
> > > > I have an iBook with the Airport Extreme 802.11g, which connects to
> > > > my linksys WAP just fine, because I can surf the net etc.
> > > >
> > > > DHCP gave it an address of 192.168.1.105 but when I do a
> > > > ping -b 192.168.1.255 on any of my linux boxen, they don't even see
> > > > it.
> > > >
> > > > Am I out of luck here?
> > >
> > > Why are you trying to ping the broadcast address of your network? What
> > > happens if you try to ping the iBook's IP from your Linux box? How
> > > about pinging the Linux box from your iBook? Can both the Linux box and
> > > the iBook ping the internal IP of the Linksys (I am guessing
> > > 192.168.1.1)?
> >
> > Ok, I can ping the address from both of my Linux boxen. I thought pinging
> > broadcast would catch everything on the network. Am I wrong here?
> >
> > Now on to the real problem. I am trying to print to a CUPS system. But I
> > get nothing from the iBook. On my CUPS box, I added 192.168.1.105 to the
> > host address list in CUPS configuration. But no print from the iBook.
> > CUPS does work though.
> >
> > > ~Jay
> >
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