Cups printer config.

[david walcroft]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 14:28 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>
>>>>    I seem to have had this problem for ages but never did anything about
>>>> it, If I try to change a setting in http://localhost:631/admin I get
>>>> this error : 'server-error-internal-error' and the change does not
>>>> happen,anybody know how to fix it.
>>> http://localhost:631/admin options are mirrored in the other choices on
>>> the http://localhost:631 screen, What happens if you try one of the
>>> others , such as Manage Printers? What exactly are you trying to change
>>> at http://localhost:631/admin? There is nothing to change there.
>> I'm not sure what you mean.
>> I seem to get a whole lot of things I could change on this page,
>> eg add printer, manager printer, etc.
>> I'm asked for my CUPS login name and password when I try to do anything,
>> which I recall don't ever giving.
>> However, it seems to allow me to proceed with my own name and password,
>> which seems bizarre.
> We are getting confused in linguistics. You are correct that there are
> options than be chosen on that page but not actually changed at that
> address. In any case you should be using the roo user and the root
> passwd to make the changes.
>> CUPS is a marvelous system when it is working,
>> but it is perversely difficult to set up.
>> It must have been designed by an alien.
>>
>> -- 
>> 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
>>
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So is the consensus such that nobody knows how to fix this problem? or 
do I go back to 'system-config-printer[-gui]'

   david