On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:25:00 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > I Beartooth wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:58:28 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> [...] >>>>> I have a suggestion....Attach the printer to just one machine, and >>>>> then set it up to share and then connect each machine to it via the >>>>> network. That might help a whole lot and cut down on the messages. >>>>> I hardly ever see those things if at all. [....] >> I remember there was a way to make at least some browsers handle >> the configuration -- but not how to launch it; maybe that has gotten >> easier, too. > > You can still do that by pointing a browser at http://localhost:631. > That's the administrative interface to CUPS directly, but you really > don't need to use it unless you're doing something VERY odd. > > system-config-printer (or in Gnome "System->Administration->Printing") > it plenty enough. Well, having now looked at present versions of both, I find that the web version seems easier, just in that it gives me a little more idea what it's asking. > To set up a local printer, click on the "Add Printer" button and enter > the data that's asked for. Once it's added, select it in the left pane > and on the "Settings" tab, click the "Make Default Printer" button and > this new printer becomes the default. > > To share local printers, select "Server Settings" in the left pane and > check the "Share published printers connected to this system" box. If > you want, you can also check "Allow printing from the Internet" box, > too. > > On the client machines, select "Server Settings" and check the "Show > printers shared by other systems" box. After a few minutes, you should > see the printers offered by the other machines show up under "Remote > Printers" in the left pane. When you ask some application to print, you > should be able to choose one of the printers that appear in that left > pane. > > Can't get a whole lot easier than that. Well, for instance, consider "location." I pulled the USB cable out of the KVM switch and stuck it into my #1 machine. So, if I'm reading between the lines correctly, the same old printer is now "local" to #1, and "remote" to #2 - 4. OK? Then I go to one of the machines other than #1, and either of those apps (the system-config one OR the web interface) wants me to tell it where the remote printer is, naturally enough. But it gives me no hint, nor any example -- is its location the local IP number of machine #1, or a URI (whatever that is), or what? So I stumble around a while, by trial and error. Here again, the web interface, being more graphic, gains an advantage -- it's quicker, easier, and surer for me to recognize "Yes, that's the display that seemed to work on the last machine" than it is to do the same the other way. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
