Steve White wrote: > Paul, >> The CUPS print system wants you to use its configuration through the >> web browser at port 631. Assuming you have the httpd package >> installed, what happens ifyou browse >> >> http://localhost:631 >> >> The IPP protocol can be specified there as one of the options on the >> second page. >> >> The CUPS config through the web browser is the preferred method of >> configuration, and the gnome or kde GUI thingies are not. >> > This only works if CUPS is running on the local system. > Cups is not running on my machine; I don't know why it should be. What only works if CUPS is running on the local system. > > CUPS is not running on my colleague's identical system, who set it up with > KDE "effortlessly" to use the print server to print to networked printers. KDE's control centre allows the selection of a printer server on a remote host, it's a fairly simple thing to do. That's not a useful thing to do on a laptop though, if you commonly use more than one network. > > As I said, I did try setting up CUPS on my system, but after a couple > of days of fiddling and reading web pages, never saw it print anything. > > The question is, how to configure a system (using the Gnome GUI) to > use a remote print server and networked printers. Well, AFAIK CUPS is installed on all my Linux systems that run one of these: Fedora 8 Fedora Core 5 (two laptops) OpenSUSE 10.2 (one laptop) WBEL4 (A RHEL4 clone) CentOS4 Scientific Linux 5 Various Ubuntu and additionally, on my Apple Powerbook G4 which is running Mac OS X Tiger. Did you know that CUPS is a product of Apple? I don't think Apple acquired it for its line of servers. I think your desktops will work a lot better if you install CUPS. My laptops have no difficulty finding the printers on the LANs I use, without being told where to look. In fact, Linux does this better than Mac OS X does. CUPS has the ability to broadcast its services, to poll CUPS servers you know about that don't broadcast or that broadcast doesn't reach. Once, I configured _one_ of my systems to poll the printer server at work (through my VPN) and all the printers appeared on all my local computers. CUPS does what you are missing. > > Thanks! > >> -- >> Paul E. Johnson >> Professor, Political Science >> 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 >> University of Kansas >> > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Steve White +49(331)7499-202 > Computer Programmierer Zi. 35 Bg. 20 > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP) > An der Sternwarte 16, D-14482 Potsdam > > Vorstand: Prof. Dr. Matthias Steinmetz, Peter A. Stolz > > Stiftung privaten Rechts, Stiftungsverzeichnis Brandenburg: III/7-71-026 > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > -- Cheers John -- spambait [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)