On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:07:19 +1030, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> If desperate, one could go into /etc/cups/ and remove the entries for >>> particular printers. I'm not sure how it handles missing files, but >>> you could load the file and remove all the configuration data, leaving >>> just the two comment lines at the top of printers.conf. > > Beartooth: >> Would you believe that's what it shows now? Yet both Firefox and Opera >> insist on showing three. > > Yes, printers.conf shows "local" printers. I'm betting that the > printers showing up in your browsers are not local ones, but ones on > another PC and available over the network. > >> I tried using Hbsk and Hbsk.localdomain (which is what uname shows for >> this machine) on Opera, but it failed to connect, though I saw it try >> 127.0.0.1 > > Tried using them for what? For 'localhost' in pointing the browser at its own machine. This is a vexed question here. I've given all the machines names, in hope of better telling them apart under ssh and scp. My router, however (a Netgear MBR 814, from my local access provider) sometimes uses the names and sometimes does not, in displays for me to read; I can't tell what it says to the machines about one another, so I tried things it might be saying. > 127.0.0.1 is computer speak for myself, network-wise. All computers > connect to themselves at 127.0.0.1. By convention, "localhost" is > related to that IP. And by a Linux convention, "localhost.localdomain" > is, as well (most likely to satisfy things that want a domain name with > at least one dot in it). Yes, I did know that much; and what I seemed to be seeing was a failure of it. Hbsk went looking for localhost, translated that into 127.0.0.1 -- and them failed to find it. So I thought it might have better luck starting from 'Hbsk'; it was an easy thing to try. > Whereas other hostnames are generally applied to other network > interfaces, and some services may not listen to them by default, for > security reasons, so that they can't be messed with by others over your > network. When I first started using names, I hoped that might be an additional benefit; I'm glad to hear it may, indeed. Incidentally, CUPS on *some* machines seems to be doing another strange thing. When I tell it with Firefox to delete a printer, or make on default, or whatever, Firefox opens a tab (labelled 426) telling me I now have to use https with some other machine's IP, 192.168.x.y; it lets me click on it; and then the whole tab goes blank. Looks to me as if it's trying to delete an unwanted printer not from its own printers.conf (which I know from the command line doesn't have it anyway) but from the other machine it imagines that printer to be attached to. (It isn't.) -- 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
