On Thursday 25 October 2001 03:31, you wrote: > I'm learning to really hate CUPS. Is there an alternative for inkjet > printers? Is CUPS dead now that Corel has largely folded? >
cups is not corel > Since upgrading to 8.1, my machine has been unable to print through a > CUPS server running on Mandrake 8.0. Thinking it might be version > mis-match, I upgraded that machine to 8.1 (losing its CDROM in the > process, but that's another story) > devfs story??? Wonder when will be an update available with out of the box (actually out of rpm package) running cdrom, zip, ... > Now, it seems no combination of printer URI's will recognize that > remote printer. > You don't need an URI on your client. 'lpr -P<printername>' should work. Perhaps you have to set ServerName in client.conf. If you have 'cups' RPM installed on your client machine (besides 'cups-common'), look at http://localhost:631/. The printers of your server should be listed. If not look in cupsd.conf on your server (catchword 'broadcast') > The CUPS manuals never ...
