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Re: Debian and X-Windows



According to Ed Sutherland, on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:27:16 +0000, 
>On Thursday 03 June 2004 17:26, Sven Luther wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:02:44PM +0000, Ed Sutherland wrote:
>
>> > My next major project is setting up CUPS so that I can use my USB
>> > printer.
>>
>> Which mostly works out of the box. You install the packages (cupsys,
>the> cupsomatic/foomatic stuff, etc, maybe a task or meta package for
>this> should be good), you browse localhost:631, and add a printer. 5
>mouse> clicks, and voila your printer is working (well works fine for
>my> samsung ML1210 at least).
>
>I tried localhost:631 from Konqueror and Lynx...both no-go. Lynx
>reports "Unable to connect to remote host." Konqueror says "Error while
>loading "http://localhost:631";. How do I get past these errors?

There is some permission to set in /etc/cups.conf, in order to have
access to the config page. Check that they are correct. I remember two
places where I add to tell that the whole world may access my printer
;o) 

/etc/init.d/cups restart

>
>Ed
>
>


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Cedric

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accent, you silly king-a?!"  Monty Python and the Holy Grail



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