Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3217 mails)

[Vince Littler <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 26 March 2004 8:32 pm, Jack Malone wrote:
>          Another quesiton for you cups guru's out there. I have had our
> server here before a crash running 8.0. My reasoning for staying with it
> was its a working production server so why break it by going with new
> version at the time. Now due to crash I have added new raid card an bigger
> hd's. Going with suse 9.0 now. In 8.0 the print services was lpd based. I
> new how to kill lpd an restart it if I needed to get the printing system
> going again. With cups I know nuthing. How/ what do you recommend to use
> for administation. I will  have 5 printers attached via  ethernet to the
> network to manage. Thanks for any info.
>

You are out of my league, I have a single attached printer on a household lan.

For administering CUPS, I use the browser interface http://localhost:631. If 
you can get your server to own your network printers, that should do the job. 
You need to run the admin daemon [cupsd?]. Yes it's cupsd. Once you have that 
running, and a web browser pointed at it successfully, it will demand a 
password. Read this <http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/09/
jsmeix_print-einrichten-90.html> to know what it's looking for.


hth

Vince Littler