I am running SuSE 9.0 and am using cups for printing. Somehow I lost one of the the printer settings, don't how. Wanted to get my two printers newly setup. Thought of Yast but discovered there that the one printer still in the config file said it was not setup in Yast. Am now I am lost. How to get my printersetup back. Right now the lost printer is setup in Yast the other not. In the original and lost setup I also had all the printing possibilities like draft, color etc separately.
Gonda Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
I am running SuSE 9.0 and am using cups for printing. Somehow I lost one of the the printer settings, don't how. Wanted to get my two printers newly setup. Thought of Yast but discovered there that the one printer still in the config file said it was not setup in Yast. Am now I am lost. How to get my printersetup back. Right now the lost printer is setup in Yast the other not. In the original and lost setup I also had all the printing possibilities like draft, color etc separately.
I use SuSE 8.0. And I am still wrestling with CUPS myself. I haven't found an interface yet that is very useful, not even the config files. Even so, I have been poking around, and am familiar enough with where things are to point you in the right direction. I would suggest reading the CUPS documentation, but that's half useless. You should check out the comments in the config files - they're a bit more helpful. Hope this helps! If things haven't changed much, you should be able to choose the Edit option in Yast, where it shows your printer installed, but not configured. You should look in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, as well as printers.conf & clients.conf. Also, the recommended way to configure a CUPS printer seems to be via the web interface: http://localhost:631/. I did manage at one point to configure my printer from a remote machine, but the test page didn't print. In trying to fix that, I've broken the whole LAN! Now I've got to figure out what I screwed up so I can get the LAN back up, and then get back to the printer. The printer now doesn't even work on the host machine - even though I re-ran the Yast configuration successfully. http://linuxprinting.org/ has a link to the CUPS site (probably cups.org), where there is another e-mail list. Godspeed!
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Don Parris
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Gonda Brouerius van Nidek