From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F7djV-0003Tb-Uf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:15:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1AJDa8Q030829; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:13:36 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1AJ79Ec016471 for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:07:09 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o37so564987nzf for ; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:07:06 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XqHUSMoouIAB8d3XjrEGwAi3GqhG+eiHX9w/6HM+SyEOQ783Zz2C3eroMN7IKcybmjcskS9AbgjjX0LRyulNjateax02Z5vE1M2iWlXI86umTeUOgykYbbWW7B3ds6C2/JVsv+U9L2XPWgnyucXrfCAwd3qw9k5xIeoAI0snvsY= Received: by 10.64.193.3 with SMTP id q3mr2785326qbf; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:06:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.143.7 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:06:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0602101106p53b8a377y2cd0aa21f7f767a1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:06:59 -0800 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS not allowing configuration from browser In-Reply-To: <200602092023.20337.manuel@mclure.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060210003634.HQOK23303.ibm67aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> <5bdc1c8b0602091834g2d0a0090l7474e0f44eed4b31@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0602091840j674619b7i46e5071cc144ac45@mail.gmail.com> <200602092023.20337.manuel@mclure.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1AJ79Ec016471 X-Archives-Salt: a579fb75-a5b9-4ebf-9dd9-89c7a0239da6 X-Archives-Hash: 11b0e46a5e90423000a1fe032a6bbc27 On 2/9/06, Manuel A. McLure 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list