Cups error - "An error occurred while retrieving the printer list. ": why ?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 18:43 +0200, Mark Ryden wrote:
>  Anne,
> Thnks.
> 
> >  You say you can get the cups page at
> > localhost:631.  Does that find your printer(s)?  How and where are
> they
> > connected?
> 
> It does not find any printer since I did not yet add printers;
> this is a new computer with a fresh install.However, I do prefer
> adding by kprinter thab by cups; and I did it more than once
> on other computers in the past. And the printer attached is
> not a local printer , but a printer attached to the local network
> which has an IP of itself.
> 
> Regards,
> Mark
What ever your preferences adding printers to a cups printing systems is
best done through the web interface if you want it to work without
problems. After all you are using cups to do your printing so you might
as well use the cups method for manipulating printing functions.
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