cups is driving me crazy . . .

[Alma J Wetzker]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:53:27 -0500, dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> 
>>quoth Tom Wilson:
>>
>>| I just tried this and I was able to access cups and add printers via
>>| web interface.
>>|
>>| as root:
>>| lppasswd -g sys -a root
>>|
>>| adds group sys and user root to cups password file.
>>
>>thanks! it certainly let me in, and it *appears* to have solved the
>>problem -- i got a good cups test page, anyway.
>>--
> 
> 
> I'm happy to hear that you solved the problem. I was going to make a
> snide remark something like "get a real distro" <grin>. SUSE is not
> bad, but (IMO) very strange with reference to how things are setup and
> configured, and magic tinkering of this sort is always to be expected.

DISCLAIMER:  I use kde and like it.  ALL my printers are network printers.

My wife's system is setup with SuSE 9.1 Pro.  I used the printer menu under;

Settings -> Printing Manager  (or some such)

Did what it asked for and got printing working without every having to touch 
cups.  It did set everything up under cups, since that is the print manager I 
asked it to use, I never needed to go into the config.  (I have the same setup 
steps when I boot knoppix.)

Granted, this has the same feel as Windoze.  Granted, I can't tune as finely 
using these tools.  Question, why do I need to do more?

     -- Alma