Re: CUPS - utterly puzzled
On Mon, 27 Feb, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> N.Pauli wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Until I installed Etch and a 2.6.12 kernel I had a perfectly good printing setup on Sarge with a 2.4.x kernel. I remember using the Gnome CUPS tool and finding drivers for my Brother printer as well
> as an HP printer both of which are network printers. During my trial and error I could delete printers.
> >
> > Now it's all so utterly primitive. I cannot delete any printer I set up, there are no Brother drivers available, I cannot even get a test page through. What has happened to CUPS? Using http://localhost:631/
> is also horribly broken. Has anyone recent experience of a good tutorial or HOW-TO that they would care to recommend?
> >
> > One thing that strikes me is that I seem, even as root, to be short of rights to control and configure my printers. Are there some pre-conditions I may have failed to meet?
>
> I meant to write CAN NOT here |
The user and group that cupsys uses are both there.
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> It's quite natural that even as root you can NOT (with default set up)
> network printers. You can set up printers only on the computer that is
> directly attached to your computer. The default settings of debian find
> all network printers for me automatically.
That's another point. I can ping the print servers attached to the printers but debian doesn't find them for me.
> Maybe you should just purge cups (ie. also delete config settings) and
> all packages depending on it and reinstalling them afterwards.
Thanks, Johannes. I've come round to that view myself. Start again clean and see what gives.
--
Nigel Pauli
Network Manager
St. John's School, Northwood
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