On 8/10/05, André Fettouhi <Andre.Fettouhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 08:06, Andr? Fettouhi wrote: > > > I am trying to add our network printer (HP Laserjet 4100) on my newly > > > installed FC4 box (P4 3.0 GHz). Adding the printer in itself is no > > > problem at it works afterwards without a problem. Now the problem is if > > > I shut down the PC or do a restart then I have to add it again. For some > > > reason FC4 doesn't remember it. Can anybody tell me why this is happening. > > > > Not sure what cause this, but I have had similar problem with > > system-config-printer in FC 4 too. It's really buggy IMO. I would set up a > > printer system-config-printer but it would not show up > > in /etc/cups/printers.conf (and in any application for that matter). > > > > Maybe try the following: > > 1. set up your printer > > 2. run this command from terminal: > > /usr/sbin/printconf-backend --force-rebuild > > 3. Restart cups : > > /sbin/service cups restart > > > > Then check to see if your printer is in /etc/cups/printers.conf: > > grep URI /etc/cups/printers.conf > > > > You should see your printer listed there. If it is, then you should be fine. > > > The time has come to upgrade our thinking about printers. Since we are > using cups system-config-printer needs to be put on the back shelf. > Go to the CUPS web interface http://localhost:631 and use it to > configure your printers. At the same time print pout the CUPS user and > CUPS system administrators documentation and learn how to use the > command line configuration tools of cups. > > I recently tried to configure a lab with 50 machines and a print-server > using system-config-printer. After screwing up royally I used the CUPS > interface and things worked out form the get go. > > Let me tell you one thing to convince you that this is the way to go. > You want to have a client to print to a print server. How do you do > it? You do nothing. Just print from the client and it finds the > server. > > I tried that twice now configuring the printer from the webhost (http://localhost:631) but the result is still the same. > When I restart the printer is gone I checked printers.conf but it is empty. Anybody know how add it manually in printers.conf? > If I don't find a solution soon I will file a bug report about cups and system-config-printer. Could it be an issue with selinux? > > Kind Regards > > André Fettouhi > > -- > > ======================================================================= > Aaron Konstam > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Cand.Scient. André Fettouhi Read the article "Why am I no longer able to control my printing system?" at http://cups.org . The article basically says that there is a problem with cups-config-deamon and recommends that you turn off the service. (Note: Make sure that you do this for all run levels.)
