On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:52 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Phil Schaffner wrote: ... > I don't understand either of you at this point. > Surely if there are lots of printers on the system, > you will have to say which one you want? Yes. > But I didn't think one normally did this by browsing. The Browsed printers tab in the printtool gives at least some of the available selections. > If you are going to use the same printer most of the time, > can't you just make it the default? Certainly. > CUPS is working perfectly for me at the moment on remote laptops, > but this was only after explicitly editing /etc/cups.conf > and /etc/cupsd.conf . > Maybe I didn't need to? That's the only way I've been able to make things work the way I want them. Just have to backup the CUPS configs and fix things by hand if I should want to use system-config-printer for anything. Phil