Adding printer in FC4 - radical suggestion

[Kam Leo]

On 8/2/05, akonstam at trinity.edu <akonstam at trinity.edu> wrote:
> 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.
> 

> Aaron Konstam


The OP's problem may be due to cups-config-deamon. Disable that
service for all run levels, 3 thru 5,  and see if that fixes your
printer configuration problem.