CUPS wont let me add printers

Naughtyus · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:03 am Post subject: CUPS wont let me add printers

I'm using gnome, and gnome-cups-manager to try to add my printer (shared from other computer via smb). It all goes without error till I press 'Apply' (the point at which the printer would actually be added). Here, I get a message saying that the operation could not be completed. I'm running the setup as root.

If I want to use the http cups conf, for location I would put 'username:password@ip_address', correct?

toskala · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:08 am Post subject:

na, the http config thing is located at

http://localhost:631

it will prompt you for uname and passwd.
username: root
password: yourrootpw

is what will work
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Naughtyus · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:25 pm Post subject:

Nono, I meant when I go to the http configuration at localhost:631, when I click to add a printer, where it says 'location', the above is true for a printer shared via smb, yes?

Naughtyus · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 7:55 am Post subject:

I tried the web configuration as above, but was unsuccessful. Is sharing via CUPS (and not samba) difficult?