Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not allowing configuration from browser

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 2/9/06, Manuel A. McLure <manuel@mclure.org> wrote:

>
> Wait - are these printers physically on this machine? Or are they on a CUPS
> server on another box? You can only manage local printers using localhost:631
> - if they're on a remote box you'll have to do remotebox:631 to manage them.

Well, yes, they are on other machines. However I need to set a
specific default on this machine so this machine knows which of the
remote printers to be default. localhost:631 won't let me do that.

>
> As a test, try the "Add Printer" button at the bottom of the list of printers.
> If that asks you for a username/password, then that's what the problem is.

Yep, that works.

>
> I'm supposing that during all of this you've exited and restarted your browser
> at least once - otherwise the browser may be sending expired credentials.

Many time. I've restarted cups, the browser. I've rebooted the machine
many times over the last few days.

>
> Note that if you don't have any local printers, you don't need to run cupsd to
> access them. All you need is to enter the hostname of your CUPS server in the
> ServerName parameter in /etc/cups/client.conf. Any cups-aware app will use
> the printers advertised by that server.

OK, so I've added this in client.conf:

#ServerName myhost.domain.com
ServerName MINI
ServerName Christmas

I've stopped cupsd and removed it from starting at reboot using
rc-update del cupsd default. What I'm completely confused about at
this part is when I do the http://localhost:631 even with cupsd not
running it still responds. What is responding at port 631 if not the
cupsd daemon?

Anyway, thanks for all the help. I'm sure I'll get this right one of these days.

Cheers,
Mark

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