Adding printers vs Xubuntu philosphy

[Collins Richey]

On 5/7/06, Joe Braddock <jmbraddock at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 09:57 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> > I don't know what the difference might be with Xubuntu, but I'm
> > running Kdapper with all the gnome stuff installed as well. On my
> > system (current maintenance as of a few hours ago), when I access
> > http://localhost:631, I'm given access to all menus (add printer, for
> > example) without a password prompt.
> >
> > Have you actually tried that, and do you get different results on
> > Xubuntu? I haven't done anything to change permissions, and it just
> > works.
> >
>
> I have dapper installed with Xubuntu Xubuntu-desktop installed and also
> a clean install of Xubuntu.  On both, using http://localhost:631 things
> go fine until the very end after actually selecting the printer driver
> to use and then a login box is displayed.  I am assuming that this is
> the point that the printer configuration is actually being written to
> disk.
>

OK, could be. At present CUPSYS is screwed up again <YECH>. When I
actually go into the add printer menu and try to select a printer, it
hangs completely. Fortunately my printer was added a while ago at one
of those brief times when CUPSYS actually worked!


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