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Re: [LUG] printing problem

 

james kilty wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 20:26 +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
>
> whereas the .conf and .conf.O have
> Listen *:631
> I don't know if that matters.

As far as I know it just says where you can connect from.

If the network is vaguely secure *:631 should be fine. localhost:631 is
just trying to avoid the Microsoft mistake of being owned by weaknesses
in trivial services that are convenient to share by default.

If this is all local it won't matter either way.

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