[cups.general] Backend issues - usb

[Michael Sweet]

On Apr 17, 2010, at 4:59 PM, Peter Chant wrote:
> ...
> Ran cupctl FileDevice=Yes, however, going into the admin menu - 
> http://localhost:631/admin/ my printer does not show up.  Either before or 
> after restarting cups.

The point wasn't to get the backend to list your printer, but to allow you to enter the file: URI (which otherwise isn't allowed...)

> lpinfo - v still does not show it.  Without poking around in the internals 
> of cups I can't see anywhere to manually enter file:///dev/usb/lp0.  (should 
> that be a double or triple slash?).

You should see "file" in the list of URIs, if not just choose "socket" and then change the URI to use a file scheme.

There should be 3 slashes.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair