On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 08:41:01AM -0500, David Krider wrote: > I went through a bunch of trouble trying to get the /etc/cupsd.conf file > specified so that I could browse, print to, and administer printers from > across the network. (I would have thought this would be the default > anyway.) > > Then I ran redhat-config-printer, and it blew all those customizations > away. Indeed. (No-one mentioned this in beta testing, incidentally.) If you have an idea for how this should behave differently, please file a request for enhancement in bugzilla. For example: should redhat-config-printer provide options for configuring cupsd.conf, or checkboxes for 'leave my access controls as they are', or something else? > (Besides, unless they've suddenly put in support for 7-year-old crap > video cards in the latest release of XFree, I'm pretty sure I'm > still hosed as 7.3 wouldn't get a working display on it.) X applications can run remotely, of course. > It seems the text version doesn't have widgets to enable printer sharing > or for allowing browsing, like I see the gui version does (in the > manual). No, I'm afraid it doesn't. (No-one mentioned that during beta testing either.) Please file a request for enhancement for that, so that it can be prioritised. The GUI tool is still quite simple and a lot could be done to enhance that; unless time is spent on getting the TUI tool better. > Am I missing something here? Is there a way to use a redhat admin > tool to administrate my printers (and allow browsing and remote > printing), and NOT have to edit cupsd.conf by hand afterward? If > not, then I think Red Hat needs to hit the drawing board again with > redhat-config-printer-tui. I guess I'm no worse off than without Red > Hat's work on redhat-config-printer-gui -- I'm back to editing flat > files by hand (and that's ok) -- I just think that this helpful > feature is only half-done. Unfortunately redhat-config-printer is hindered by its original aim of being at least a little bit spooler-independent. This came in very handy in the switch to CUPS, but when there is only one shipping spooler perhaps it will be easier to make the configuration tool more powerful. I hope so. Tim. */
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