Configuring a printer on a server without a GUI

Fred Smith fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
Tue Nov 11 23:17:16 UTC 2014


On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 01:06:37PM -1000, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> 
> On 11/11/2014 12:32 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >On 11/12/14 06:14, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >>On 11/10/2014 10:19 PM, Dario Lesca wrote:
> >>>  From console or a ssh shell run:
> >>>
> >>>$ sudo cupsctl _remote_admin=1
> >>After installing cups (not part of minimal), I got:
> >>
> >># cupsctl _remote_admin=1
> >>cupsctl: Unable to connect to server: Bad file descriptor
> >This indicates that the cups services are not running....
> >
> >systemctl enable cups
> >systemctl start cups
> >
> >then cupsctl
> 
> OK.  that worked, but
> 
> https://ipaddr:621/admin
> 
> is unable to connect.  also fails with http://

isnt it port 631 for CUPS ?

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