According to Ed Sutherland, on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:27:16 +0000, >On Thursday 03 June 2004 17:26, Sven Luther wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 04:02:44PM +0000, Ed Sutherland wrote: > >> > My next major project is setting up CUPS so that I can use my USB >> > printer. >> >> Which mostly works out of the box. You install the packages (cupsys, >the> cupsomatic/foomatic stuff, etc, maybe a task or meta package for >this> should be good), you browse localhost:631, and add a printer. 5 >mouse> clicks, and voila your printer is working (well works fine for >my> samsung ML1210 at least). > >I tried localhost:631 from Konqueror and Lynx...both no-go. Lynx >reports "Unable to connect to remote host." Konqueror says "Error while >loading "http://localhost:631";. How do I get past these errors?
There is some permission to set in /etc/cups.conf, in order to have access to the config page. Check that they are correct. I remember two places where I add to tell that the whole world may access my printer ;o) /etc/init.d/cups restart > >Ed > > -- Cedric "[Of course] I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king-a?!" Monty Python and the Holy Grail
