Re: Weird cups problems
Thanks for your reply, George.
Whenever I start cups, it puts several random network printers located
in other people's offices into my /etc/printcap file and they show up
when I go to localhost:631.
There is an option in the config file to stop this happening (can't
remember which one.)
Reading through the documentation, the "Browsing" option seemed to apply
to this, so I turned it off but it had no effect.
I do not actually have access to these
printers, I can't delete them from within the web interface. When I try
to delete them, the "Delete Printer" button is a link to IP address of
the printer, not to localhost. For example, my IP address 10.3.1.40,
and one of these printers show up as "i9900" and the device URI is
"ipp://ip-3-1-216.utica.edu:631/printers/i9900". The "Delete Printer"
button is a link to
"http://ip-3-1-216.utica.edu:631/admin/?op=delete-printer&printer_name=i9900";
and I get a "Forbidden" error when it tried to connect to 10.3.1.216.
Your issue is probably similar to this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323796
If so, you can get around it by entering URL by hand and
I tried manually altering the URL to go to localhost and it seemed to
work, but the printer was still in the list when I went back to the
"Printers" screen.
Does anyone have any ideas about this? Is cups just plain broken right
now, or can this be corrected?
Dude, if this is your biggest problem with cups right now then you are
lucky. Apparently it is really broken in Testing/Unstable for some
people at the moment.
Not my biggest problem, just my latest one. :-)
Hope this helps,
Indeed it did. Thanks!
- Dave
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Dave Parker
Utica College Department of
Integrated Information Technology Services
Data Processing Office
(315) 792-3229
Registered Linux User #408177
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