redhat-config-printer works only for LPRng and shows LPRng printers, no matter what print system you are using. There is a CUPS configuration somewhere in Extras menu, or you may just point your browser to http://localhost:631, after you start cups daemon. > -----Original Message----- > From: Thom Paine [mailto:thom@ac-services.ca] > Sent: Mon, October 21, 2002 3:59 PM > To: psyche-list@redhat.com > Subject: Re: Cups & Lpd > > > On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 18:59, Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:31:16PM -0500, Paul Kloves wrote: > > > > > Yup. Solved this problem a few minutes ago, actually. I'm using > > > xinetd, and I found that cups-lpd was enabled. I disabled it, > > > restarted xinetd, and now I can start lpd. > > > > I had another report like this, but cups-lpd is shipped disabled so > > I'm not sure what's going on. Is this an upgrade, or a fresh > > installation? > > It is a fresh install. I've never been successful trying to print to a > Lexmark Optra E312 on a Windows 2000 machine here on my lan. > I've posted > the question back when I was running 7.3 and received some help, but I > was never able to make it go. The I managed to get it to go as far as > the win2k machine accepting the print job, and the data light > flashes on > the printer about half a dozen times, then goes out. The > print job fails > to come out. So it's like the printer is aborting the print job. > > So now that I've done a fresh install of 8.0, I thought I'd > take a stab > at it with cups. I was messing about and now I've got it screwed up > somehow. I did follow the previous thread closely on this, but my > problem didn't seem to be the same. > > In a nutshell, I'd just like to be able to print to the laser > printer on > that win2k machine. Whether cups or lpd does it, doesn't really matter > to me. One question, after I run redhat-switch-printer, and then I run > redhat-print-config, does the gui screen look the same for > both cups and > lpd? Maybe it's not running the cups gui config for me. > > Thanks, I'll keep muddling away with this. In the meantime I've set a > lexmark z32 on my desk so I can fix my print manager. > > -- > -=/>Thom > Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) running Linux Kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0 > Uptime: 9:53am up 2 days, 21:29, 1 user, load average: 1.35, 1.52, > 1.58 > Registered Linux User #214499 http://counter.li.org > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
