CUPS remote printing help

C M Reinehr cmr
Tue Mar 6 07:01:05 PST 2007


On Tuesday 06 March 2007 06:47, James McDonald wrote:
> Man-wai CHANG wrote:
> > Attached is my cupsd.conf.
> >
> >> On the laptop, I have created a printer for the remote connection, and
> >> the printers.conf is
> >>
> >> <DefaultPrinter lp>
> >
> > You should use the cups web interface at http://localhost:631 to create
> > the printer, not writing your own config file.
>
> I think Redhat uses system-config-printer in favour of the web
> interface... I suppose each distro has their own gui config tool.

	Right, KDE has a printer control module as well, but as Man-wai said, using 
the web interface is the most reliable way of managing CUPS.

cmr

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