Steve White wrote: > Hi, > > I’m using Scientific Linux 5, and trying to connect to our IPP printers > (or printer server, I’m not sure). The only mechanism provided by this > distribution for Gnome printer configuration is system-config-printer. > > I finally figured out how to specify a default printer (by editing > /etc/cups/client.conf > to contain one line > ServerName my_IPP_servername > > But how to do this from the Gnome GUI? > > (My collegue who uses an identical system, but with KDE, says it was > effortless for him...but he can't remember what he did.) That's one of the symptoms of why I don't use gnome though in early releases, I expected that once the stability problems were resolved I would. I't being dumbed down to what the developers think users what. Not this user, I want to be able to configure stuff effortlessly, In KDE, I think one can (sort of) do it from the the print dialogue invoked from any _KDE_ application: Expand Options choose System Options choose General Select "Defaults to last printer used in application." Note, beside the printer drop-down at the top of the print dialogue is a "properties" button, In there, one can configure any of the stuff in the printer's ppd. Couldn't get any of that last time I tried to use Gnome seriously. In the Mozilla family one can specify a custom print command, the default's lpr. The kprinter command works well, gets the KDE print dialogue. In Control Centre (kcontrol command, I couldn't find it in my broken menus), choose preipherals, printers, properties, instances and mark the default. In Gnome, use of the lpoptions command in a gnome terminal might work. It creates/maintains users' .lpoptions file. Here's mine: 08:29 [summer@numbat ~]$ cat .lpoptions Default Kyocera Smoothing=None Dest Laserjet Special Advanced%20Faxing%20Tool%20(ksendfax) Special Mail%20PDF%20File Special Print%20to%20File%20(PDF) Special Print%20to%20File%20(PostScript) Special Send%20to%20Fax 08:29 [summer@numbat ~]$ > > I talked to the developers of system-config-printer: they say this utility > is only for configuration of CUPS servers. I don't have access to our > fileserver, and it fails badly and confusedly to do anything useful. > I also couldn't get it to connect to the printers directly. > > I also tried setting up my system to be a CUPS server, and could make > CUPS printers that seemed to see our networked printers, but never had > any luck actually printing to them (the jobs would just hang in the > queue, allthough the printers were all activated...the logs said something > about "Unable to connect to printer"). -- 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:-)