Share an Old Printer on Your Local Network - CUPS

In this article, I will share with you about my second time installing CUPS on Ubuntu.

Requriement

• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Install on an Old Computer
• Canon E410 Series Printer
• Internet

CUPS Installation and Configuration Step by Step

• Install CUPS on your system

#install cups
sudo apt-get install cups cups-pdf cups-bsd 

• Back up the configuration file

#copy configuration file
sudo cp /etc/cups/cupsd.conf cupsd.conf.bak

• Editing the CUPS configuration file

#add user simith to lpadmin group
sudo usermod -aG lpadmin simith
#edit cupsd.conf
sudo vim cupsd.conf

• Edited cupsd.conf contents.
  （Configuration options not mentioned should be left as default.）

#allow access port
Port 63100
LogLevel warn
PageLogFormat
MaxLogSize 200

1. Show shared printers on the local network.
Browsing on
BrowseLocalProtocols dnssd

1. Web interface setting...
WebInterface Yes

1. Restrict access to the server...
<Location />
  Order Allow,deny
  Allow @LOCAL
  Allow From 127.0.0.1
  Allow From 192.168.0.0/16
</Location>

1. Restrict access to the admin pages...
<Location /admin>
 #access user simith can visit admin page
  Require user simith
  Order Allow,deny
  Allow @LOCAL
  Allow 127.0.0.1
  Allow From 192.168.0.0/16
</Location>

1. Restrict access to configuration files...
<Location /admin/conf>
  AuthType Default
  Require user simith
  Order allow,deny
  Allow @LOCAL
  Allow 127.0.0.1
  Allow From 192.168.0.0/16
</Location>

1. Restrict access to log files...
<Location /admin/log>
  AuthType Default
  Require user simith
  Order allow,deny
  Allow @LOCAL
  Allow 192.168.0.0/16
</Location>

• Restart CUPS service and add to starup

sudo systemctl restart cups
sudp systemctl enable cups

End

Finally, you can visit the Ubuntu IP address and configuration

Example: " http:// ubuntu ip address:63100 "

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