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. Thanks, B.J. CentOS 5.2, Linux 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 x86_64 15:07:43 up 22:01, 4 users, load average: 0.14, 0.09, 0.02