[SOLVED] PIDORA as CUPS Server and AirPrint Station

Not certain if this is absolutely the correct area to ask this but I am having difficulty with PIDORA (2014 release) based on Fedora.

I am trying to set up cups and airprint on Raspberry PI running PIDORA.

I need to add firewall rules to allow 631 but when I run the following command I get FirewallD is not running:

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=631/tcp --permanent

When trying to start the FirewallD I get:

sudo systemctl enable firewalld.service
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service' '/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1.service'
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/firewalld.service' '/etc/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/firewalld.service'

$ sudo systemctl start firewalld.service
Failed to issue method call: Unit firewalld.service is masked.

Can anyone suggest how to overcome this? Or is UFW available for FEDORA as I have used that with more success on Debian. (Due to Dell printer driver only being redhat friendly I am trying all of this on PIDORA as I have had driver issues on Raspbian).

Can anyone help?

I have found a command which is obvious but not to me due to my inexperience with Fedora / PIDORA:

sudo systemctl unmask firewalld

--in doing this it removed the service file firewalld.service which I recreated using:

sudo systemctl enable firewalld.service

Then started:

sudo systemctl start firewalld

Success!

Then added my rule:

firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=631/tcp --permanent

Though I still cannot open my CUPS admin page:

x.x.x.x:631 --firefox cannot connect ................... investigating this now

CUPS wasn't running as a service:

$ sudo systemctl status cups

cups.service - CUPS Printing Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)


$ sudo systemctl enable cups
$ sudo systemctl start cups

$ sudo systemctl status cups

cups.service - CUPS Printing Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/cups.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2014-09-21 15:30:33 BST; 1min 14s ago
Main PID: 740 (cupsd)
CGroup: /system.slice/cups.service
└─740 /usr/sbin/cupsd -f

systemd[1]: Started CUPS Printing Service.

Yet still I get a firefox cannot connect from an external host (I set the allow rules for CUPS for my LAN ................I'll keep looking

It looks like CUPS service is starting and has a PID '702' and the service status appears healthy yet the CUPS error_log is empty as if it is not actually started.

As this thread is beginning to go off in a seperate direction I will close and link this to a new thread that is specific to the new problem.