check in (my system, mandrake 9.1) /etc/cups/cupsd.conf make sure that:
Browsing On and you may want to set BrowseInterval 30 BrowseDeny All BrowseAllow @LOCAL Now to the task of actually getting cupsd running on your system /etc/init.d/cups status note that your init scripts may be in a different place in a debian based distro. This should tell you if it is running, now that you know, and have made changes to the config file, you might want to restart or start cups if it was not running. note the line #Port 80 #Port 443 Port 631 port 631 should be your friend in this case, fire up your browser and point it to localhost:631 now fork around it will ask you about username and password, use root and your root password. Setup your printer, create a quo and you should be ok. Set the printer as default (but i think it will do that automatically if you only have one printer) Cheers Szemir On December 28, 2005 07:34, Michael Walters wrote: > Hello all, > > I went to the Quick Browser icon and then to system configuration, and > then to Cups and then to open in a terminal. > > Then the terminal screen showed: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/etc/cups$ > > I then became super user and did the following command: > > vi cupsd.conf > > and found that as Root I could read the entire file. > > I knew I could type "i" and start editing the file, but that would only > do harm if I did not know what I was doing, so I did some reading of the > comments(in green with # at the start of each line) and configuration > lines (in white). > > The first line I saw in white was: > > DefaultCharacterset notused > > The next line in white was > > ErrorLog /var/log/cups/error_log > > The next line in white was: > > LogLevel info > > and the LogLevel comments are: > > # LogLevel: controls the number of messages logged to the ErrorLog > #file and can be one of the following: > # > # debug2 Log everything. > # debug Log almost everything. > # Log all requests and state changes. > # warn Log errors and warnings. > # error Log only errors. > # none Log nothing. > > Any way, you get the idea of what I was doing and can do. > > Any suggestions of where I should look to find out how to get my printer > working? It is a canon BJ-200e inkjet printer. > > Regards, > > Michael Walters - clug tier two member and new kanotix user > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
