Setting up CUPS clients
 

Hello,

I maintain a small cluster and I am trying to get all print jobs to go through the server instead of each client connected to the printer.

I have my server setup and I can run lpstat -v" and get

device for color405: ipp://128.193.96.74:631/printers/color405
device for EPSON_Stylus_Photo_R380: ipp://128.193.96.7:631/printers/EPSON_Stylus_Photo_R380
device for HP_Deskjet_F4400_series: ipp://128.193.96.7:631/printers/HP_Deskjet_F4400_series
device for Weniger303a: ipp://128.193.96.74:631/printers/Weniger303a
device for Weniger303a-Color: ipp://128.193.96.74:631/printers/Weniger303a-Color
device for Weniger412: ipp://128.193.96.74:631/printers/Weniger412
device for wngr412: socket://128.193.96.33
device for wngr497: dnssd://WNGR497-PRN2._printer._tcp.local/

The bottom two are the printers that are ran through the server.

I run "lpstat -r" and get

scheduler is running

Where I am confused is setting up the cups.conf file. The IP addresses I am connecting to are 128.193.97.x where x=1 to 37. On the server, I added

Listen *:631

and under <Location /> I added

Allow 128.193.97.0/255.255.255.0

On the client, in the /etc/cups/client.conf file I added the following

NameServer 128.193.97.2

I restart cups on both systems. Then on the client I go to
Desktop--->Administration--->Printing and it fails.

I am checking to see if I did anything wrong. Thanks!

Hi,

Just to make sure, what's the subnet mask on the server? All printers seem to be in the range 128.193.96.X so I assume the server is also in that range. Depending on the subnet mask set on the server your clients might not be able to connect.

Kind regards,

Eric

I found out that when I setup the printers, I forgot to select "to share the printers connected to the system".

Now I get 4 different printers from other cups servers that I do not control. How do I tell a client machine to only look at my cups server. Here is my cupsd.conf file if needed.

LogLevel warn
MaxLogSize 1m
SystemGroup lpadmin
# Only listen for connections from the local machine.
Listen localhost:631
Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock
# Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing On
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseAllow all
BrowseRemoteProtocols CUPS
BrowseLocalProtocols
DefaultAuthType Basic
<Location />
# Restrict access to the server...
Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Location /admin>
# Restrict access to the admin pages...
Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Location /admin/conf>
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
# Restrict access to the configuration files...
Order allow,deny
</Location>
<Policy default>
<Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job CUPS-Get-Document>
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default CUPS-Get-Devices>
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit All>
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
</Policy>
<Policy authenticated>
<Limit Create-Job Print-Job Print-URI>
AuthType Default
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit Send-Document Send-URI Hold-Job Release-Job Restart-Job Purge-Jobs Set-Job-Attributes Create-Job-Subscription Renew-Subscription Cancel-Subscription Get-Notifications Reprocess-Job Cancel-Current-Job Suspend-Current-Job Resume-Job CUPS-Move-Job CUPS-Get-Document>
AuthType Default
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer CUPS-Delete-Printer CUPS-Add-Modify-Class CUPS-Delete-Class CUPS-Set-Default>
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit Pause-Printer Resume-Printer Enable-Printer Disable-Printer Pause-Printer-After-Current-Job Hold-New-Jobs Release-Held-New-Jobs Deactivate-Printer Activate-Printer Restart-Printer Shutdown-Printer Startup-Printer Promote-Job Schedule-Job-After CUPS-Accept-Jobs CUPS-Reject-Jobs>
AuthType Default
Require user @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit Cancel-Job CUPS-Authenticate-Job>
AuthType Default
Require user @OWNER @SYSTEM
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
<Limit All>
Order deny,allow
</Limit>
</Policy>