Can't connect to cups admin on :631

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Tue Dec 7 20:05:00 UTC 2004


fre, 03.12.2004 kl. 13.33 skrev Jeffrey D. Yuille:
> On Friday 03 December 2004 12:08 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > Egad... I knew it had to be something rather dumb.
> Hello, 
> 
>       Speaking of CUPS, I am right now reinstalling Fedora Core 3 on one of my 
> computers because I don't know how to re-establish my print server settings 
> in the /etc/cups/cupsd.config file.  I am trying to set up a CUPS print 
> server on my local LAN where not only can the other machines on the LAN see 
> the printer on the server but also print from it. I continue to get an error 
> from the computer where the printer is attached which states that it cannot 
> bring up the CUPS server settings.  I am using the KDE desktop environment 
> and I am using the printing manager under Applications-Preferences-More 
> Preferences-Printing Manager. I am sure that this error is due to something I 
> did wrong in the /etc/cups/cupsd.config file.  Is there any way I can bring 
> this file back to its default state? At this point, I cannot even print 
> locally from the machine where the printer is attached.  As I mentioned 
> above, I have been able to get the other machines on the LAN to see the 
> printer on the network, but I am still unable to print remotely. All of my 
> machines are behind a wireless router which are connected through ethernet 
> ports except for one of the machines, which is connected wirelessly.  Any 
> help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance. 
> 
> 
> Jeff

Just wondering... You *can* ping the computers by machine-name, the
*SAME* machine name that it is listed under under the clients
"localhost:631" interface?




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