Adding printers to CUPS configuration

[Andrew Robinson <awrobinson@xxxxxxx>]

I've got a Samsung ML-1710 printer that I've run under Fedora Core 1 and 
 want to run under Fedora Core 3. The Samsung software is supposed to 
work with CUPS, but after installing it, the cups init script fails 
because printconf-backend fails. printconf-backend fails because 
/usr/sbin/alternatives --display print returns something that 
printconf-backend doesn't expect. This much has been noted has been 
noted in bugzilla, at which point Tim Waugh, apparently the Red Hat CUPS 
guy, threw up his hands.

It appears that the above chain of errors happens because Samsung adds a 
version of lpr in /usr/local/linuxprinting/bin and puts a link to this 
version in the normal place. OK. Rather than use the Samsung installer, 
I wonder if I can install the Samsung drivers into the existing CUPS 
installation.

Can someone tell me how to add the Samsung printer drivers to the CUPS 
configuation? I have the .ppd files and filters from the Samsung 
installation. From the very little I've been able to figure out in the 
last two nights, it appears I need to get knowledge of the ppd files 
into the /etc/ppds.dat file. I haven't found an explanation on how. Is 
there a how-to that I haven't turned up with Google?

Thanks!

Andrew Robinson