On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 11:20 -0500, b.j. mcclure wrote: > 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. ;-/ Do you have the Cups Service running? service cups status and service hplip status. JohnStanley