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. > > I just have an old dual-PPro for my file-and-print server, so I didn't > install X on it, let alone Gnome or KDE. (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.) So I don't have the fancy-schmancy newfangled > Gtk2-using redhat-config-printer-gui. No, it just runs the "-tui" > version when I call the command. And that's all I wanted. (And, no, I > didn't want to waste my limited disk space installing X _and_ a bunch of > Gnome2 libraries _just_ for redhat-config-printer.) > > 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). 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. > > Thanks and regards, > dk As far as I know you configure CUPS printers by the web interface: http://<hostname>:631/admin -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
