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CUPS Administrion Page Remote Access

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gbeirn

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I have a Debian box setup as a printer server with CUPS. All the printers print fine and whatnot. I can access the CUPS administration page at localhost:631.

What I would like to do is access this same administration page across the Internet by going to https://hostname.gotdns.com:631 using a dyndns account.

I can get it to work by setting the allow in the cups.conf to: Allow xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx is our IP address from our ISP. Problem is this is not a static IP and changes.

I have tried to set it to Allow hostname.gotdns.com but when I try to access the administration page I get a 403 access denied error.

Any suggestions? What am I missing?
 
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in the config file? Just make darn sure you have solid authentication security. to connect from a dynamic IP it will need accept from any IP. You might also look into leaving it to listen only on localhost and then using a ssh tunnel or something like that.
 
Thanks for the responses. I was assuming that if I could get it to allow only connections from a FQDN, even if it was a dyndns account that it would be OK. I think I will stick to the setup we have now then (RDP into another computer on the same subnet as the printer server) and access it that way.
 
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