CUPS remote printing help

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, C M Reinehr wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2007 19:27, Ben Duncan wrote:
>> yeah CUPS = Crappy Unix Print Service ....
>> versus LPRng = Linux Prints Rightous next request ...
>>
>> Collins Richey wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>>
>>> Any clues what might be wrong?
>
> 	I'm beginning to think that this is a distribution related problem. I've been
> using CUPS for years and have found it to be easy to use & reliable. I just
> installed a new Debian Etch system yesterday using an HP laser printer over a
> USB cable. The printer was correctly recognized, installed & worked the first
> time I tried to print a test page.
>
> 	The reason I say distribution related is that setting up a cups.conf file
> from scratch _would_ be a real pain whereas Debian (shameless plug) and I'm
> sure others has it configured to work out-of-the-box.

I've been using CUPS in assorted RH/FC releases ever since RH ditched 
LPRNG infavor of cups many years ago, and I've never had a single problem. 
I suspet that this might be a PEBCAK issue.


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