Lost my printers

Andrew Robinson awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com
Wed Sep 12 01:35:25 UTC 2007


Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 13:57 -0400, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>> Frank Cox wrote:
>>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:44:56 -0400
>>> Andrew Robinson <awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> After some yum upgrades, my remote printers are no longer available on 
>>>> my laptop. I suspect CUPS, but I couldn't find any differences with 
>>>> previous versions of configuration files. Has something changed in the 
>>>> latest version? A setting that needs to be set to see remote printers? 
>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>> Do your printers show up at http://localhost:631 ?
>>>
>> No they do not. They do show up on http://printerhost:631.
>>
>>
> That is not good. Where did printerhost come from and where is it
> defined. If the printers are not seen in localhost:631 they are not cups
> printers and will not print.
> --
In this case, "printerhost" is a euphemism for the ip address of the 
server with the printers.

Andrew




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