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

[Michael Sweet]

Rob Tanner wrote:
> 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?

Only on Red Hat, where they don't ship printer-specific PPDs but
instead generate PPDs from a Foomatic XML database, so you're really
not getting the right/best driver for a printer (and if you follow
this group, you'll see a LOT of problems that people are having with
this setup...)

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