Steve White wrote:
Paul,
The CUPS print system wants you to use its configuration through the
web browser at port 631. Assuming you have the httpd package
installed, what happens ifyou browse
http://localhost:631
The IPP protocol can be specified there as one of the options on the
second page.
The CUPS config through the web browser is the preferred method of
configuration, and the gnome or kde GUI thingies are not.
This only works if CUPS is running on the local system.
Cups is not running on my machine; I don't know why it should be.
What only works if CUPS is running on the local system.
CUPS is not running on my colleague's identical system, who set it up with
KDE "effortlessly" to use the print server to print to networked printers.
KDE's control centre allows the selection of a printer server on a
remote host, it's a fairly simple thing to do.
That's not a useful thing to do on a laptop though, if you commonly use
more than one network.
As I said, I did try setting up CUPS on my system, but after a couple
of days of fiddling and reading web pages, never saw it print anything.
The question is, how to configure a system (using the Gnome GUI) to
use a remote print server and networked printers.
Well, AFAIK CUPS is installed on all my Linux systems that run one of these:
Fedora 8
Fedora Core 5 (two laptops)
OpenSUSE 10.2 (one laptop)
WBEL4 (A RHEL4 clone)
CentOS4
Scientific Linux 5
Various Ubuntu
and additionally, on my Apple Powerbook G4 which is running Mac OS X Tiger.
Did you know that CUPS is a product of Apple? I don't think Apple
acquired it for its line of servers.
I think your desktops will work a lot better if you install CUPS. My
laptops have no difficulty finding the printers on the LANs I use,
without being told where to look. In fact, Linux does this better than
Mac OS X does. CUPS has the ability to broadcast its services, to poll
CUPS servers you know about that don't broadcast or that broadcast
doesn't reach. Once, I configured _one_ of my systems to poll the
printer server at work (through my VPN) and all the printers appeared on
all my local computers.
CUPS does what you are missing.
Thanks!
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