new fc6 install in cups hel^Hck. "connection to cups server failed"

[Fennix]

On 4/17/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>
> At 8:49 PM -0500 4/16/07, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> ...
> >All print configuration should be done from the cups web interface:
> >localhost:631
>
> That was true before FC6.  In FC6, system-config-printer is compatible
> with
> CUPS, and either can be used.  Tim Waugh would surely have mentioned if
> the
> OP were using the wrong tool, and he said before:
>
> At 5:22 PM +0100 4/2/07, Tim Waugh wrote:
> ...
> >Fedora Core 6 uses the CUPS configuration directly, rather than
> >maintaining an XML version of it separately.  This means that you can
> >use the CUPS tools (lpadmin etc) to script new installations of printers
> >and so on.
> >
> >Depending on what you need to do, you might find that the CUPS
> >'browsing' facility is sufficient for your needs.
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My experience for CUPS in FC6 was that it only worked using the web
interface as Aaron Konstam has said.  I also tried at first to use the
system-config-printer tool with the same result of being unable to connect
to the CUPS server.This was rather frustrating as in prior FC versions I
never needed to use the web interface but using FC6 only this way seems to
now work and not the local tools to set up a local printer.  Now I do have
the situation where CUPS seems to work and print jobs hit the queue then
finish...but the print job never gets printed.

So it seems that the the only way currently to add a printer is using the
CUPS web interface.  I hope this helps you.

Stefan
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