Sharing the CUPS printer with other Linux PCs

The following is not specific to the Wordcraft Linux printers.

  1. Edit (as root user) /cups/mime.types
    1. Delete the “#” character at the start of the following line:
      #application/octet-stream
      To leave:
      application/octet-stream
    2. Save the edited file
  2. Edit (as root user) /etc/cups/mime.convs:
    1. Delete the “#” character at the start of the following line:
      #application/octet-stream
      To leave:
      application/octet-stream
    2. Save the edited file
  3. When using Red Hat Linux, as noted on cups.org, it is also necessary to:
    1. Edit (as root user) /etc/cups/cupsd.conf:
      1. Change any “Listen 127.0.0.1:631” or “Listen localhost:631” lines to “Listen *:631”.
      2. Inside the “” section, change “Allow 127.0.0.1” or “Allow localhost” lines to “Allow @LOCAL”.
    2. Red Hat changed the integrity of CUPS and how it
      handles configuration and you may need to disable the cups-config-daemon when running on Red Hat. This is done by entering the following commands in a shell session (terminal) as root user:
      • chkconfig cups-config-daemon off
      • /etc/init.d/cups-config-daemon stop
  4. Restart CUPS either by restarting Linux or using the following command in a shell session (terminal) as root user:
    • /etc/init.d/cups restart