On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 15:13 -0500, b.j. mcclure wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 11:14 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:
on 3-2-2009 8:20 AM b.j. mcclure spake the following:
I have been trying to set up printer sharing on the LAN.All machines are CentOS 5.2 fully updated. The problem server is a fresh build. The box it is replacing worked fine for many months. The problem appears to be a closed port 631 on the new box. iptables and ip6tables are stopped as shown by the output below. To confirm I was using nmap correctly I ran it against the old server first which shows 631 open. No matter what I do to the new box (192.168.2.205) 631 remains closed. I was running it on the new box via ssh which I think eleminates any swithc/router issues.
Any thoughts gladly accepted. This must be something simple/stupid I have overlooked. Not much hair left to pull out. ;-/
Cups defaults to only being open on localhost. You have to edit the config file to open more up.
Perhaps I misunderstand your suggestion but cupsd.conf is identical for the machine that works properly and the one upon which I cannot get port 631 open, even on localhost.
Try this: netstat -n -l -p | grep 631 Maybe a another process has it but I think you did say it did not come up with nmap? Last option I know to check would be to see if it has a socket file in /var/run/cups. It needs that before it will listen on port 631.
I've herd many people say the config is the same as the machine but why not just take it and try it on the one that want work, then service cups restart. Remember something there are no two machines ever alike!
JohnStanley