new fc6 install in cups hel^Hck. "connection to cups server failed"

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 22:15 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 8:49 PM -0500 4/16/07, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>  ...
> >All print configuration should be done from the cups web interface:
> >localhost:631
> 
> That was true before FC6.  In FC6, system-config-printer is compatible with
> CUPS, and either can be used.  Tim Waugh would surely have mentioned if the
> OP were using the wrong tool, and he said before:
> 
I don't know what Tim Waugh would have mentioned but below he suggests
using lpadmin which I don't disagree with if you understand how to use
it. But the OP was using system-config-printer which is  is a completely
different matter. I want to believe that after trying for three versions
of Fedora to get that latter program to work the developers of Fedora
succeeded. But I still feel strongly that localhost:631 is the way to
go. It really is the cups configuration tool.
> At 5:22 PM +0100 4/2/07, Tim Waugh wrote:
>  ...
> >Fedora Core 6 uses the CUPS configuration directly, rather than
> >maintaining an XML version of it separately.  This means that you can
> >use the CUPS tools (lpadmin etc) to script new installations of printers
> >and so on.
> >
> >Depending on what you need to do, you might find that the CUPS
> >'browsing' facility is sufficient for your needs.
> -- 

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