Re: CUPS problem

[akonstam trinity edu]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:35:49PM -0500, fredex wrote:
> HI:
> 
> Newly setup FC4 on a home LAN. Attempting to set up printer, start
> the printer setup tool, it shows the print queues already existing
> on the "other" linux box that it found by searching the net. Trouble
> is, I can't print to any of them. It'll let me select one and "send"
> a test page to it but nothing ever happens.
> 
> So I try to configure manually one of them, go thru the settings
> to make it an IPP printer and print to it and nothing happens.
> 
> I finally got the printer on my wife's XP box to print by manually
> setting it up as a SMB printer.
> 
> but I'm puzzled, it shouldn't be hard, anybody got a clue for me?
> 
> Fred
> -- 
I second the suggestion that you forget about system-config-printer
and use the web interface to configure printers. (localhost:631)
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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