Access CUPS Web Administration tool from workstation

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9

Situation

From a SLES machine, you can open the browser to http://localhost:631 to administrate CUPS. However, the default CUPS configuration will not allow this tool to be accessed from remote browsers.

Resolution

To make this available from a remote browser:

1. vi /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
2. The following bolded items must be changed within the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf:
Note: The 3 below documented sections do not show consecutively in the cupsd.conf as they appear below. Search the cupsd.conf to locate these sections.

<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
#Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From 127.0.0.2
Allow From @LOCAL
Allow From All
</Location>

BrowseAllow @LOCAL
BrowseAllow All
BrowseDeny All

## Restrict access to local domain
Order Deny,Allow
#Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
Allow From All

3. Restart CUPS

/etc/init.d/cups restart

4. From a workstation's browser, go to http://[ip_or_dns_of_SLES]:631

5. You may be prompted to log in. To successfully authenticate, the account must be added to the group lp. This can be accomplished by issuing the following command:

lppasswd -a [Linux_user_account] -g sys

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