On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 01:25:25PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I am really drained now bit I intend to post the horror story I have > > been living to get our printers configured. > > Did you directly edit any of the /etc/cups/*.conf files? Yes I did . You have to to make it work as it should,` > > I got CUPS working this way, > after unsuccessfully trying system-config-printer > (or the equivalent Start=>System Settings=>Printing) > and also the web interface at <http://localhost:631/>. The first step in getting the CUPS web interface to work is to rename system-config-printer so no one will ever run it. If one runs it it is bound to change (that is ruin) the web interface printer definitions so they all say this printer must be configured with system-config-printer. I will post details presently but my strong advice is if you want to configure printers using the CUPS web interface NEVER, NEVER, NEVER run system-config-printer especially if you are going do an edit on one of the printer configurations. That is the kiss of death. > > > (Am I alone in finding the system-config-* wizards > in general extraordinarily bad? > I've tried the display, mouse, sound, printing and network wizards, > and the only one I'd give any marks to is the last, > and I'd only give that 5/10 .) I find then very helpful except system-config-printer if you really want the cups printing system to work correctly then do not configure printers as lpd since that is not the protocol that cups is designed to handle. > > > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ======================================================================= "And do you think (fop that I am) that I could be the Scarlet Pumpernickel?" -- Looney Tunes, The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950, Chuck Jones) ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
