Slug, After 7 years of great service, the printer has become unserviceable.
So I consulted the linuxprinting.org site and was convinced that the Epson Stylus C83 is the go. Went out and got one. Came home. Immediately printed a beaut photo of my mum in Gimp. However, text is another matter. I can now recite by heart the mini-HOWTO at http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/cups.html . But I can't even get the http://localhost:631/admin page to open. I get the "Connection refused when attempting to open ..." error. A light flashes faintly. Maybe small networks like this home setup of mine are not the paradigm. Perhaps it's all about network printing. So I install apache on the desktop machine. Run through the httpd.conf file and make it very liberal. Still no connection. OK. So I already have a nice apache working on the router. They must assume you know that it's got to be done on the router. I install all the recommended cups packages on the router. I can access the http://localhost:631/admin from a terminal (no X) sshing into the router from the desktop machine. But not from the desktop machine directly using a gui browser. I now have all the cups packages on both machines. I wonder why I can't access the config gui from the desktop. I conclude that assumptions are being made here by the cups people about information the average joe might have regarding cups, networking. Certainly the missing bits of information are not to be found on their site. Could someone give me a hand here. I've relaxed all the iptables rules on both machines. It's that missing bit of information that it's assumed I've always known that I need. Thanks, Nick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
