Fudged up my CUPS settings

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Sun Aug 16 23:44:43 UTC 2009


On 08/16/2009 07:15 PM, Tod Thomas wrote:
> I have my FC10 laptop connected to a winxp shared printer using cups.  I
> remember it was a bit of a hassle to setup because the xp password had
> special characters so I had to modify a config file somewhere.  Anyway I
> recently was goofing around and tried the Fedora system CUPS config GUI
> (applet?) which seems to have messed up my ability to print.
> So now I have two problems.  One is almost every link in the CUPS web
> interface looks like this:
> http://::1/printers/Okidata?op=print-test-page

Is that an IP6 URL?  or a port number?

> The port number is messed up somehow.  For the life of me I can't find
> the config file for this.  Also, I can't get the password working again
> so I need to be able to configure it and the web GUI can't seem to
> handle the special characters I need to login to the share on the XP
> box.  Does anybody have any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Thanks - Tod
> 


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