Adding printer in FC4 - radical suggestion

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:33:19AM -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tuesday 02 August 2005 08:06, Andr? Fettouhi wrote:
> > I am trying to add our network printer (HP Laserjet 4100) on my newly
> > installed FC4 box (P4 3.0 GHz). Adding the printer in itself is no
> > problem at it works afterwards without a problem. Now the problem is if
> > I shut down the PC or do a restart then I have to add it again. For some
> > reason FC4 doesn't remember it. Can anybody tell me why this is happening.
> 
> Not sure what cause this, but I have had similar problem with 
> system-config-printer in FC 4 too. It's really buggy IMO. I would set up a 
> printer system-config-printer but it would not show up 
> in /etc/cups/printers.conf (and in any application for that matter). 
> 
> Maybe try the following:
> 1. set up your printer
> 2. run this command from terminal:
> /usr/sbin/printconf-backend --force-rebuild
> 3. Restart cups :
> /sbin/service cups restart
> 
> Then check to see if your printer is in /etc/cups/printers.conf:
> grep URI /etc/cups/printers.conf
> 
> You should see your printer listed there. If it is, then you should be fine.
> 
The time has come to upgrade our thinking about printers. Since we are
using cups system-config-printer needs to be put on the back shelf.
Go to the CUPS web interface http://localhost:631 and use it to
configure your printers. At the same time print pout the CUPS user and
CUPS system administrators documentation and learn how to use the
command line configuration tools of cups.

I recently tried to configure a lab with 50 machines and a print-server
using system-config-printer. After screwing up royally I used the CUPS
interface and things worked out form the get go.

Let me tell you one thing to convince you that this is the way to go.
You want to have a client to print to a print server. How do you do
it? You do nothing. Just print from the client and it finds the
server.

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