[cups.general] Two issues: one annoying, one confusing

[Rob Tanner]

Michael Sweet said the following on 01/31/2006 01:09 PM:

> Rob Tanner wrote:
>
>> 2.  I'm running the version of CUPS (v1.1.23) that comes bundled with 
>> Fedora Core and I'm using the system-config-printer command and the 
>> GUI it brings up to add new printers, setup the drivers, etc.  
>> Whenever I do that, I loose the ability to access the web interface 
>> from my workstation and in order to get access back, I have to 
>> manually edit the cupsd.conf file and add back in a Listen 
>> <hostname>:631 option so it can be accessed by other than localhost 
>> (no, I do not delete the Listen 127.0.01:631 line).  What do I do to 
>> keep that from happening all the time.
>
>
> Don't use system-config-printer, but instead use the web interface
> to add your printers.
>
But using the web interface means I don't have access to the drivers 
tailored for the printer model (the web interface gives you only 3 CUPS 
choices as opposed to printer model specif foomatic drivers).  Doesn't 
that constitute something of a downside to using the web interface to 
add new printers?


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Rob Tanner
UNIX Services Manager
Linfield College, McMinnville OR