Re: How to recover printers on fresh install

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On 05/31/2010 09:02 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 31 May 2010 20:48:48 -0400
> Genes MailLists wrote:
> 
>>   I was running f12. I did a fresh install of f13 .. now does anyone
>> know how to restore all the f12 printers onto f13 (I have backups of
>> everything).
> 
> I just look at the old /etc/cups/printers.conf file and specify
> the same printer URLs and descriptions again in system-config-printer.
> (Run system-config-printer as root, or you'll be prompted for
> root password about 4 times for each printer :-).

 Yeh but I don't want to run it as root and put the authentication
information back in for windows shared printers etc ... I'd like it to
be simple - there are a -lot- of printers at work .. and  home - and
friends .. etc.

  The info is somewhere - surely there must be a bunch of files we can
copy off the backup ?

  gene/
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