RESOLVED: icewm + cups management

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Thursday 29 April 2004 20:55, CW Harris wrote:
[...]
> In your cups.conf do you have "Port 631" or something else? (it is
> configurable -- under "Network Options")

Port 631 is commented out, but no other is set and and 'Listen *:631' is 
set. I've tried with Port instead of Listen and it makes no difference. 
In any case, it says that 631 is default.  BrowsePort 631 is set.

> Does "#netstat -ptl" show cupsd listening on any port?

# netstat -ptl | grep cups
tcp   0   0 *:ipp      *:*      LISTEN   16519/cupsd

> Then check under "Browsing Options" (enabled by default--did you
> disable it?) 
[...]
# grep Brows /etc/cups/cupsd.conf 
Browsing on
BrowseProtocols CUPS
BrowsePort 631
BrowseInterval 30
BrowseTimeout 300
BrowseOrder allow,deny
BrowseShortNames Yes

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That all seemed to lead nowhere, so I rechecked all the boxes.  Turns 
out that, on my thinkpad, the web interface does work.  It is great - 
actually got the remote printer to work that I have failed until now to 
activate remotely.  But I can see no meaningful difference between the 
cupsd.conf on the laptop and that on the desktop machine, except that 
the kde-installed version on the desktop specifies the default settings 
for many items that the (probably knoppix-installed) version on the 
thinkpad leaves unset. 

So I copied the config from the laptop to the desktop box and restarted 
cupsys.  Immediate success with no tweaking needed.  No idea why.  It 
seems perhaps that it is best to leave everything possible as default, 
and not explicitly entered as the kde tool had done.  Anyway it works.

Thanks for the pointers.  One learns something from every problem.

-- 
richard