FC3 printers and Cups

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:45:30PM -0400, mylar wrote:
> I recently installed a HP USB printer on a FC3 box. it works fine. I
> originally tried to configure it using the system-config-printers gui
> and had problems. So I configured it via the cups browser interface and
> all is well. Additionally I wanted to share the printer across a network
> so I hand edited the cupsd.conf file by hand adding the "BrowseAddress",
> "Listen" address, and I removed a few printers that were no longer in
> existence. Everything works fine except when the machine reboots. Some
> application takes the liberty of auto-editing and changing the
> cupsd.conf file back to what it was before I edited it. This causes my
> printer shares to dissapear from the network.

I probably won't be able to help you because I had the opposite
results on FC4.  I changed printers (parallel interface), reconfigured
with the CUPS browser interface, and couldn't get it or another
printer to work right.  I reconfigured with system-config-printers and
all was sweetness and light.

> Googling around the net someone told me that the problem is
> "system-config-printer" and that I should remove "system-config-printer"
> if I want to maintain a hand edited version of "cupsd.conf". But, when I
> try to remove the rpm I get a dependency issue stating that
> "system-config-printer" is needed by "hal-cups-utils". Not being sure
> what "hal-cups-utils" is or does I refrained from removing
> system-config-printer for now. Googling around on the web all I could
> find ways that hal-cups-utils is a "hallified version of cups-utils"...
> whatever that means.
> 
> So, can anyone help me out ?? What would "is system-config-printer"  the
> cause of my problem ?? What is "hal-cups-utils" ?? Do I need it ?? Help
> !! I'm getting tired of re-editing "cupsd.conf" every single day ...
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> mylar

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