Re: printing in Debian
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 12:48:55PM -0700, Paul E Condon
> wrote: | On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 11:17:32PM +1000, CaT
> wrote: | > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 07:44:29PM +0700,
> Musang S.X. wrote: | > > So how do you print (and
> configure a printer) in | > > Debian, actually...? | > >
> | > > I've read the Linux Printing HOWTO, but found so
> little | > > for the Debian-specific (or is it just me?
> :-p)... | > > | > > Anybody mind sharing...? | > | >
> apt-cache search cups | > | > This is on a woody system
> though. | > | > Unless you're unlucky you should be able
> to get your printer going in | > under 5 mins by
> connecting to localhost:631 with your web browser. The |
> > username/passwd is root and its password. | | My
> browsere is Galeon. When I type localhost:631 in the URL
> window, it | responds immediately with connection
> refused.
>
> That means you don't have any daemons listening on the
> port. It does not mean the authentication failed.
>
> Did you install the 'cupsys' package? Did you run
> /etc/init.d/cupsys start ? Check that cups is running
> and listening on port 631 (the default for it) with 'ps'
> and 'netstat'.
>
> HTH, -D
>
If you've also got cupsys-client installed the webbrowser
interface doesn't seem to work (not by default, at any
rate). I installed it once in a flurry of installing
cups-related items only to find that it interfered with the
http admin system, so I removed it.
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