Problem: CUPS re-writing printers.conf

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 02 August 2009 18:49:09 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > One thing you could try - set up keychain authentication with keys.  I've
> > only
> > used it in an ssh situation, but I believe it can work in lots of others.
> > You give the keychain password at the start of a session and that is
> > checked
> > against known-hosts on the remote machine.  That's certainly worth a try.
>
> Thanks to Tim Waugh, who told me how to create the diagnostic file
> troubleshoot.txt, I have worked out the cause of my problem.
>
> Firstly, I thought that on my laptop (192.168.2.7)
> I had to go to <http://localhost:631> and add my printer,
> which is attached to the computer 192.168.2.1,
> giving the URI <http://192.168.2.1:631/printers/HP_LaserJet_5L>.
>
> I now see that it is not necessary to do anything on the laptop,
> apart from start cups.
> The printer can then be seen in the CUPS web interface.
> (I thought I had set the printer to be shared,
> but perhaps I failed to do this originally.)
>
> The actual problem arose because my server, running httpd, is 192.168.2.2 .
> It seems that either CUPS or hp-setup substituted
> 192.168.2.2 for 192.168.2.1 in its internal working,
> as shown in the diagnostic file.

Glad you got it sorted.  Just before we leave this, and to make it complete 
for the archives, how about adding the command that gave you your 
troubleshoot.txt?

Anne
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