Tim Waugh wrote: > On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 12:30 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I'm unable to print an email message from within kmail, >> by clicking on File=>Print. >> I get the message >> "Connection to CUPS server failed. >> Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. >> Error: host not found." >> The server is listed as /var/run/cups/cups.sock:631 , >> which seems odd to me. > > Seems to be this bug: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193098 Thanks very much. This led me to <https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-May/msg04431.html> which gave the solution to the problem. In brief, one has to go to Control Centre=>Peripherals=>Printers, click on Print Manager/Configure Manager, and go to CUPS Server and correct the information for Host: In my case I put "localhost" on my desktop, to which the printer is attached (via the parallel port), and on my laptop I put "alfred", the name of the desktop. Now when I tried to print an email message within kmail on my desktop, I still got an error - no printer was shown. I had to click on the wand, go into the KDE Add Printer wizard, and give the correct information for the printer "lj" there. It warned me that it was over-writing the information for "lj" (recall that CUPS printing already worked perfectly for me outside of kmail), but after this I was able to print email within kmail on both desktop and laptop. -- 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
