On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've been fighting for the last couple of hours to add a network > printer to my rawhide system. the shared work area where i hang out > has a brother MFC7460DN printer on the network, at 192.168.2.126, and > i've verified that i can ping it, so that's a start. > > i've read a few different alleged installation instructions which > all seem to differ. what's the recommended recipe for this? > > googling a while ago brought me here: > > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=279494 > > so i downloaded both lpr and cups rpm packages from brother and > installed them. i'm not sure if i need to install "a2ps", and i'd > rather not as it would drag down a ton of dependencies. > > i've browsed to localhost:631 to see if i can add a printer there, > but it seems that it sets up a new printer as if it's connnected via > USB and not on the network. > > i'm going to keep messing around, but if anyone out there has set up > that printer (or something suitably similar), i'm open to guidance. extra info i just noticed ... when i browsed to localhost:631 and tried to add a printer, i got "Forbidden", and when i checked the output of: $ systemctl status cups i read: ... Returning HTTP Forbidden for CUPS-Get-Devices (no URI)...lhost ... CUPS-Get-Devices request failed with status 401: Forbidden i have no idea what that means ... what exactly is being forbidden here? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
