Hi list,

First, this mail was intended to be a question, but I solved the problem
myself just some minutes later. I post it here, in prevention from other
users that could get stuck into a similar scenario.

This is a laptop with Fedora Core 4; printing from this unit has been
configured to do via CUPS since there is no direct connection from here
to the printer, this is through a home LAN network instead. The printer
is plugged into a desktop computer, running Fedora Core 4 as well, and
CUPS working. It is proved that the CUPS connection works, that client
and server are correctly configured, since printing is totally automatic
whatever office application I work with from here, e.g. text editors,
PDF viewers, word processors, etc. 

This time it was Lyx the tool, I like to use it from time to time. The
document was finished, so just it rested to print it. File -> Print, but
here, it was the first time that a options box appears asking for the
path to the printer...

Actually, there is no need to point to any path to the printer (forget
things like
ipp://<IP.LAN.printer.server>/printers/<given.name.of.the.printer> an
similar). In fact, those won't work.
Just type _the name of the queue_ of printing, that is, the name you
gave to CUPS in order to name that printer when configuring it.

No more here, folks. Silly issue, there are tons of this kind in the
computing world. :-)

Regards,

Daniel Rodriguez.


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