akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:21:23PM -0600, John Pierce wrote: > >>Well, I had similar problems getting cups to serve up to my local <snip> > Ok, lets take this from the top. The cupsd.conf should have only one > Listen statement in most cases, and that is: > Listen 127.0.0.1 > > Clients on the same LAN will be able to print to the printer without > any further configuration. That is , no server line needs o appear in > the clients.conf file. Further, if the Server line appears in the > client.conf file then the client will not be able to print to a local > printer. > > Under no circumstances should system-config-printer be used to > configure CUPS printers. It has serious flaws for this purpose. > > If the original poster used system-config-printer to configure the > server printers this is one reason printer might have not worked on > the clients. Yes I did. But this answer might be a joke: I read the documentation under http://localhost:631/admin <quote> Adding Your First Printer from the Command-Line /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printer -E -v device -m ppd ENTER </quote> OK I have a HP laserjet 1015 <quote> You'll find a complete list of PPD files and the printers they will work with in Appendix C, "Printer Drivers". </quote> Nothing for my printer.... (system-config-printer has it). So: <quote> Adding Your First Printer from the Web </quote> Same problem: the only hp laserjet in the list is: 1020 and, of course, this does not match my printer..... What can I do? -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université Paris 5 - Paris http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
