On Dec 8, 2007 5:55 PM, Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 18:37 +0530, arnuld wrote: > > I have EPSON LX-300+ dot-matrix printer which works fine on Fedora, Arch > > and Debian. I usually got to CUPS web-interface localhost:631 and set-up > > my printer there using root account. on gNS I can't do that. whether > root > > account is enabled or not, gNS nevr accepts my root user-name/password > > combination and throws back the same Pop-up for entering > username/password > > again and again. > > Ubuntu broke cups. The web interface no longer works. > > That's funny. I just connected an old Okidata ML321 to Ubuntu 7.10 using the CUPS web interface today. The only problems I encountered were needing to ensure the printer was in the IBM-emulation mode and re-connecting the cable afterwards. We could not get the darned thing to print squat until we disconnected and re-connected the cable.
And you can manage CUPS printers from the CLI: http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html :-) Cheers! Don -- D.C. Parris Minister, Journalist, Free Software Advocate https://www.xing.com/profile/Don_Parris http://www.linkedin.com/in/dcparris
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