Ok I have a Cups printing question, on 192.168.2.1 which is the internal IP of my router I have a printer attached to the parallel port on the router. In Windows I send my print jobs to 192.168.2.1/lp using the LPR protocol, and the print. When I tried to add a prinmter in CUPS using a device url of lpd://192.168.2.1/lp and tried to send a test page, CUPS tells me the address is not available from this machine. The IP of the system I’m trying to print from is 192.168.2.254 Any ideas?
Additional info that I seem to have discovered from 192.168.2.254 doing http://127.0.0.1:631 brings up the CUPS screen but doing http://192.168.2.254:631 brings up a forbiden screen so it appears CUPS is not detecting my IP
This link might have some suggestions
Setting up a printer with the CUPS web frontend
This message board message might also have some usefull info
IIRC cups is set by default to only bind to the loop-back address (127.0.0.1), not any others. You can change that in its config files (/etc/cups/<something>, don’t have a box with cups installed infront of me).