Re: redhat-config-printer cannot share printers

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam Trinity Edu>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:46:15PM -0400, Christopher Wong wrote:
> I've been trying to use redhat-config-printer to enable sharing of the
> printer across a network. My understanding is that /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
> gets overwritten every time it restarts, so editing it is futile. But even
> after I specify sharing, the written file has the following line at the 
> bottom:
> 
> 	Listen 127.0.0.1:631
> 
> If the server will only listen on the local loopback, won't it make 
> printer requests across the network impossible? 
> 
> On a related subject, if you find that redhat-config-printer is not
> updating your CUPS configuration files after sharing is enabled, see bug
> #88291 for a workaround.
> 
> Chris
Could someone tell me why people are still using redhat-config-printer to
configure CUPS pronters instead of the web interface described in the
documentation?
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