Automatic Installation of Printers

[Timothy Murphy]

On Friday 17 December 2004 13:14, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:

>       Perhaps I am missing something during the initial installation. I
> guess the problem that I am having is when I am trying to get other
> machines on the network to print from the machine where the printer is
> installed.  

You are not alone.
CUPS is almost wilfully difficult to configure.
First of all you have to give some crazy URL to get at the documentation;
and when you get there it is almost completely incomprehensible.

The idea that it might assist if one gave a concrete example
instead of describing the philosophy behind the system
is evidently outside th ken of the CUPS team.

An automatic configuration would be marvellous.
But in the meantime a page of examples would be a godsend.

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