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:
> On Thursday 09 February 2006 06:40 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > I take this back. After restarting the broswer I get the main page but
> > none of the options work. They are all refuled potrt messages. Now,
> > with cupsd not running locally it seems that there would be no way to
> > set the default printer, or am I missing something?
> >
> > This machine is lightning. It sees two printers on the network. In
> > windows IPP terms they are
> >
> > \\MINI\PSC1600
> >
> > and
> >
> > \\CHRISTMAS\Epson
> >
> > With cupsd not running I can still do lpstat and get info about the
> > printers:
> >
> > lightning ~ # lpstat -a
> > Epson@Christmas accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
> > PSC1600 accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
> > lightning ~ #
> >
> > But the system has decided that the Eson is always the default. Due to
> > limitations of a few low-end Linux programs that cannot choose a
> > printer I sometimes need to change the default to get the print out to
> > go where I want it to go.
>
>
> If you don't mind getting you hands dirty with the command line, try the
> following as your normal user ID:
>
>         lpoptions -d PSC1600
>
> This should set the default printer for the logged-in user.
>
> The "system default printer" is determined by the server, not the client, but
> it can be overriden on a user-by-user basis in this way. The lpoptions
> command creates a .lpoptions file in the home directory of the user with the
> default specified.
>
> Or you can set the PSC1600 to be the network-wide default printer by
> connecting to remoteserver:631 and configuring it there - of course if you
> have a ~/.lpoptions file that will override it.
>

Hi Manuel,
   Thanks very much. This has been helpful. However what we're finding
is to completely use lpstat and lpoptions on printers out on the
network, as well as the printer admin app within Gnome, we must have
cupsd running locally. Other than that everything now works. Granted
we cannot 'manage' the remote printers from our local cupsd
localhost:631, but we are allowed to look at the Job Queue on the
remote printers using CUPS on the local machine. I suspect that will
be suffucient for our needs.

With best regards,
Mark

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