Month: January 2016

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Recently I update Lenovo EZ firmware, but unfortunately Brother HL-2130 sharing stops working.

After some research, I found that CUPS web page is not configured for external IP address.

By default you are only able to access CUPS admin web interface from localhost by going to https://localhost:631.
But to access this page from another remote machine, you need to first make some edits to the cups conf file. So do the following:

1. Edit the cups configuration file located in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and make the section that looks like:

    # Only listen for connections from the local machine.
    Listen localhost:631
    Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock

look like this:

    # Listen on all interfaces
    Port 631
    Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock

2. Then you need to modify the Apache specific directives to allow connections from everywhere as well. Replace the followin section:

    <Location />
    # Restrict access to the server...
    Order allow,deny
    </Location>
    <Location /admin>
    # Restrict access to the admin pages...
    Order allow,deny
    < /Location>
    <Location /admin/conf>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    # Restrict access to the configuration files...
    Order allow,deny
    </Location>

to:

    <Location />
    # Restrict access to the server...
    Order allow,deny
    Allow all
    </Location>
    <Location /admin>
    # Restrict access to the admin pages...
    Order allow,deny
    Allow all
    </Location>
    <Location /admin/conf>
    AuthType Default
    Require user @SYSTEM
    # Restrict access to the configuration files...
    Order allow,deny
    Allow all
    </Location>

3. Restart your cups daemon:

    # /etc/init.d/cupsd restart

4. You should now be able to log into cups on your server with:

https://yourserverip:631