fre, 17.12.2004 kl. 21.06 skrev Rodolfo J. Paiz: > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 13:48 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > CUPS is almost wilfully difficult to configure. > > Perhaps you could provide some detail on your troubles? Maybe we can > help. > > My experience was that printing on Linux befuddled me *until* CUPS, > which has made everything work well. In the case of Fedora Core 3, I > simply hit the Fedora -> System Settings -> Printing menu, then add a > printer. I've been successful in configuring printers connected via the > parallel port, printers shared by a Windows box, and even printers on an > old Linksys print server (which magically turned out to support LPR). I > have also managed to share the printers on my Linux system with > others... and every single one of those was point-and-click simple. > > I'm not saying you're crazy or I'm expert... I'm just pointing out that > there are different experiences out there. What problems are you having > specifically? > Shure it's not DNS? If cups can't lookup the hostname the server broadcasts, it *WILL* fail. garanteed. Often you can get clues by going to "localhost:631" in a webbrowser on a misbehaved client, an try to print a test page. Kyrre