Re: CUPS

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 12:04:08PM -0800, Cam Ellison wrote:
| * Dimitri Maziuk (dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu) wrote:
| > * Cam Ellison (camellison@dccnet.com) spake thusly:
| <snip> 
| > > What am I doing wrong, or not doing, please?
| > 
| > You're not doing the following: RTFM and edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.
|
| I did that, though I think I still need to do something else.
| Instructions I had seen elsewhere said "http://localhost:631";.  The

That is the URL for the "home page", if you will.  That gives you
access to everything.

In lynx (why can't I copy from links!?), it looks like :

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
                                                    Common UNIX Printing System

                        Common UNIX Printing System

                            Do Administration Tasks

                            Manage Printer Classes

                                 On-Line Help

                                  Manage Jobs

                                Manage Printers

                      Download the Current CUPS Software
     _________________________________________________________________

   The Common UNIX Printing System, CUPS, and the CUPS logo are the
   trademark property of Easy Software Products. CUPS is copyright
   1997-2002 by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The URL that the "Do Administration Taks" link takes you to is

| FM says "http://localhost:631/admin";, which made a considerable
| difference.

which is where the admin stuff is.  If you want to view a printer's
queue, click on the "Manage Printers" link which takes you to
http://localhost:631/printers.

| Now I have another problem.  Attempting to print a test page gets me
| this error:
| 
| client-error-document-format-not supported

What sort of file did you try sending?

Did you try the "Print Test Page" button in the printer's queue
display in the web interface?

-D

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