On Friday 21 April 2006 07:36, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Jeff Vian wrote: >> In each of the location stanzas of the type above I added another >> "Allow From x.x.x.x" line with the IP of the remote workstation. >> Now when I restarted cupsd I can print from the remote workstation. >> >> This is at best a work-around and I need to find out why it cannot >> be configured this way using the cups interface (or file a bug >> because it cannot). > >My conclusion when modifying CUPS some time ago >was that I could _not_ make all necessary changes >through the web interface. >I had to make some modifications "by hand" in /etc/cups/ . > >I'd be interested to know if I was correct. > There are changes to be made to /etc/cups/cupsd.conf that you can't do thru the web page, and they have to do, generally, with permissions for the various operations. But as far as setting up a printer, for me, thats always Just Worked(TM). And with an epson printer, I use gutenprint only, and have nuked all traces of foomatic. >-- >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 -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
