Re: cups newbie

[Michael Voggenreiter <michaelvoggenreiter@gmx.de>]

Ionel Mugurel Ciobica schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> Someone knows few thinks about cups? I am trying to set up a printer
> and  http://localhost:631 give a page from where if I choose anything
> the browser just hangs with the message "Waiting for localhost...".
> 
> I have try the hard way, without the webadmin interface, but without
> any luck. Anything I do ends up with errors. For example thinks like
> "lpadmin -p printer -E -v device -m ppd" give:
> 
> lpadmin: add-printer (enable) failed: client-error-forbidden
> 
> or a simple "lpinfo -v" give:
> 
> lpinfo: cups-get-devices failed: client-error-forbidden
> 
> I changed the "LogLevel debug" and I found this in the logs:
> 
> PID 2241 stopped with status 13!
> SendError: 7 code=403 (Forbidden)
> 
> I try to follow some tutorials, howto's and faq's from cups but I
> can't figure it out... Anyone know why I can't get the
> http://localhost:631/admin/ to work or what is this
> client-error-forbidden error and how do I solve it?
> 
> Thank you for your help.
> 
> Ionel
> 
> 
> P.S. I run sarge and all install is standard (via apt-get), no custom
> packages.
> 
> 
Hi,
if you try to reach the page from an other machine you have to allow the
access from other machines in the network in your cups config.