Cups problem

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sun Dec 16 02:59:57 UTC 2007


david walcroft wrote:

>> It's amazing to me that this apparently endless thread
>> seems to be entirely due to the fact that
>> YOU DO NOT HAVE cupsd RUNNING.
>>
>> If you did, you would see the CUPS web-page
>> if you gave entered http://localhost:631 in your browser.
>>
>>
>>   
> I do have cupsd running as shown previously.

I haven't read the whole thread,
but I haven't seen any evidence that cupsd is running on your machine.

What is the output of "ps aux | grep cups" ?

Also what is the result of "telnet localhost 631"?
And "telnet 127.0.0.1 631"?

> My present problem is getting it to accetp the root password

I'm not sure what you mean.
If cupsd is running then you should be able to browse to localhost:631
without giving the superuser password.

I strongly suspect your problem is much simpler than you think.

I suppose you could possibly be running a firewall (eg shorewall)
that prevents you accessing port 631?






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