I'm now a convert to CUPS (was Re: Mixing LPRng and CUPS?)

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Well, I went back to my systems this morning after writing
the email below, and began by reading the documentation.  After
I thought I knew enough to understand at least the next step,
I fired up the client machine, and much to my astonishment,
I had printers visible and available all over the place.
Perhaps CUPS on the client had needed a restart or something.
I had to fool with only a couple of things to make the printing
wonderful, it was raw as it stood, needed to be told the printer
model and HPLJ 4M Postscript works just fine for me so far.

Happy days.  The improvement over LPRng is visible and
I'm suddenly a convert.  The web administration thing needs
work because it seems to leave me in dead-ends sometimes,
but it's completely useable.

++ kevin


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On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> I tried the web thingy, and got basically the same problems as 
> described for the Control Center, presumably because the Control
> Center is only fronting for the true culprit.
> 
> Thanks for the hint about directing the listener.  I'll do that.
> The odd thing is, as near as I can tell, nobody's listening on 631
> as things stand.  That may be the real problem.  I'll start with the
> obvious things: looking at the daemon.  I had thought port 515
> was the real deal because of the line from a file in /etc/inet.d:
>    printer stream  tcp     nowait lp       /usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-lpd 
>      cups-lpd -o document-format=application/octet-stream
> but that turns out to be cups-lpd, which is presumably what I will
> be using for my LPRng clients.
> 
> Someone sent me a link to full CUPS documentation.  I'm going to
> devote as much of today as it takes to making this work.  I'll give
> the web admin thingy another try too.
> 
> This sort of thing sure makes me respect the effort that goes into
> an easy-to-use interface, whenever I actually see one.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ++ kevin
> 
> 
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