On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 08:23 pm, Alexandr Malusek wrote:
Graham Smith <gqs@iinet.net.au> writes:
Firstly don't use YAST to configure CUPS on the client machine. It's only usefull for setting up a machine which has printers attached.
YaST2 options in SuSE 8.1 indicate it can configure CUPS on a client machine; IPP protocol is supported. I haven't tried it but if it doesn't work then the problem should be reported and fixed ASAP.
Basically as long as server security options are setup correctly and /etc/hosts is correct the client should see the server automatically from what I have seen. Although sometimes it helps to configure /etc/cups/client.conf file with the server name. I really don't think you need GUI config tools to enter one line in a file.
(I only used YaST2 to setup CUPS to print on a network printer using lpd and it worked flawlessly.)
YaST2 doesn't support configuration of security options on the print server (/etc/cups/cupsd.conf). Does the CUPS web interface or Webmin support it?
The CUPS web interface does not have these facilities as far as I know. Haven't a clue about Webmin as I don't use it. You can use the KDE Control Centre to change the security settings. I don't know how well it works as I haven't used the facility. The /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file is very well commented and is far easier to alter than using a GUI wrapper. I have found out the hard way that unless a GUI wrapper is very well designed and has questions that make sense you can really stuff up in a very big way. At least with a plain text config file you can add comments and try things. But then I like to get my hands dirty. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------