* Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
[04-24-04 02:05]: One question I have though about the xpp GUI is, How do I add another printer ie a network or local one, as the GUI doesn't seem to allow printer addition and deletion? I had a look to see if there was more documentation under man/info and even went and had a look at file:/usr/share/doc/packages/xpp/README or does XPP automatically detect printers?
Use yast2 or a browser addressed to localhost:631. Tried the browser trick addressed to port 631 and it asked me for a username and password. I entered root and its password and it asked me for the password again, so I reentered it and waited. After a while the browser came back asked for the password again. I was sure it had been entered correctly before so I cancelled and the browser came back and said I wasn't authorised :|. Checked the printer and found it(my regular
Patrick Shanahan wrote: printer) to be off, so I assume that when adding printers the printer must be on so that CUPS can query it ie I can't just select a printer make and model from a list of supported printers? -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced Windows user Registered Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================
* Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Tried the browser trick addressed to port 631 and it asked me for a username and password. I entered root and its password and it asked me for the password again, so I reentered it and waited. After a while the browser came back asked for the password again. I was sure it had been entered correctly before so I cancelled and the browser came back and said I wasn't authorised :|. Checked the printer and found it(my regular printer) to be off, so I assume that when adding printers the printer must be on so that CUPS can query it ie I can't just select a printer make and model from a list of supported printers?
check: http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/09/jsmeix_print-einrichten-90.html -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711
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