On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Tom Cross wrote:
I have a recently updated/freshly installed fedora core 6 workstation with an attached printer. I'm trying to set it up so that other computers can print to the attached printer. I cannot find anywhere in the "system-config-printer" program that says "allow printing from network". I had to edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and add a "Listen hostname:631" and an "Allow mynetwork" line there. After I added them, the two lines mysteriously disappeared. We tried reproducing the program by starting system-config-printer again, making changes, restarting cups, etc... the changes stayed. I'm thinking whatever overwrote my cupsd.conf is waiting for me to be out of the building to break it again. Is there a proper "fedora-way" to tell cups to allow for network printing?
On the left of the s-c-p window is a "Server Settings" menu entry. Click that and check "Share published printers..." Then on each printer's Settings tab, check "Shared".
Is there a reason why my changes to cupsd.conf are getting replaced?
I thought the new s-c-p was supposed to eave custom entries in cupsd.conf alone. Maybe not...
Thanks!!
-- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
