On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Daniel Sterling wrote:
Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
It's mostly my own stuff. I built from source files
So you're doing Linux From Scratch? or are you using an underlying distro?
There was an underlying distro about 10yrs back, SLS, but I
don't think it matters much anymore what it was. I had a bit
of help from Slackware along the way.
Additionally, debian package maintainers often include instructions on how to
get the package "up and running", and/or why it does/doesn't work "out of the
box". These hints, as well as the package's documentation, are often quite
useful.
OK will go look. I haven't had a chance to try out your
previous suggestions yet. I do download stuff from Debian
occassionally - sometimes it's the only place you can get
it.
I'll try to address some of your other questions as best I can from memory:
The cups http interface does alter the configuration files, but it's ability
is fairly limited, I believe.
Good to know. I had assumed it did the whole megillah.
As far as cups's network printer discovery, I believe a server that has a
printer that it is configured to share will send broadcast packets to the
network, which clients can be configured to listen for. cupsd.conf(5) has a
list of directives that deal with browsing.
will go look.
That man page also says to refer
to the on-line documentation for details.
I've followed a few links like this. Somewhere trying to
find printers shared from other machines, I was told to go
look up the page on setting up network printers. This turned
out to be how to assign an IP to a network printer,
something I'd already handled.
Thanks Joe
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