Adding printer in FC4 - radical suggestion

[Phil Schaffner]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:52 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Phil Schaffner wrote:
...
> I don't understand either of you at this point.
> Surely if there are lots of printers on the system,
> you will have to say which one you want?

Yes.

> But I didn't think one normally did this by browsing.

The Browsed printers tab in the printtool gives at least some of the
available selections.

> If you are going to use the same printer most of the time,
> can't you just make it the default?

Certainly.

> CUPS is working perfectly for me at the moment on remote laptops,
> but this was only after explicitly editing /etc/cups.conf
> and /etc/cupsd.conf .
> Maybe I didn't need to?

That's the only way I've been able to make things work the way I want
them.  Just have to backup the CUPS configs and fix things by hand if I
should want to use system-config-printer for anything.

Phil