[ale] CUPS Newbie

[Robert Heaven]

I think I figured out why I was having a problem. As I was reading the 
cups help documentation, and attempting to execute the commands it was 
recommending (lpstat -p -d), I kept noticing I was getting responses 
from the lpd system. (referring to /etc/printcap and /var/spool/lpd) At 
first, being ignorant, I thought maybe cups was using lpd as a backend. 
As I read further I found out the cups system replaces most of the lpd 
programs (they're mutually exclusive) with it's own so by re-installing 
cups I now have the correct programs for cups to work.

I'm beginning to think that the install/setup tool on the slackware CD 
needs to pay attention to the order in which it installs certain 
applications.


Robert Heaven wrote:

> That didn't fix it so I downloaded the cups package from slackare.com 
> and re-installed it and now I can print.
>
> This same technique fixed my mozilla problem yesterday.
>
> I had originally got my slackware iso image (9.1) from linuxiso.org 
> and installed it from CD. This is 2 packages that I've had to 
> re-install to make them work.
>
> Geoffrey wrote:
>
>> Robert Heaven wrote:
>>
>>> Recently loaded Slackware for the first time and am trying to get 
>>> cups to work with my netgear print server. I added the printers 
>>> using the cups web tool (http://localhost:631) and successfully 
>>> printed the test pages. Unfortunately, the other applications 
>>> (mozilla) won't print. Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>> Did you set your default printer to point to that printer?
>>
>> I believe it would be 'lpadmin -d THE_NETGEAR_PRINT_SERVER'
>>
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