Configuring a printer on a server without a GUI

[Kevin Cummings]

On 11/10/2014 10:15 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I have a server here that has no GUI installed.
> 
> No gnome, xfce, or any other.  And I want to install a printer.  It is
> an HP8610 and I have the url for it.  I strangely thought that
> system-config-printer would work, but that also requires more than just
> a text window as I get:
> 
> # system-config-printer
> Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
> Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
> Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
> 
> (system-config-printer.py:15388): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> 
> 
> Oh, yes, no monitor at ALL.  Only a serial console or SSH terminal.

Can you SSH in from a device with a GUI and access it with the GUI over
the network?  (ssh -Y)?

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