On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:25:03PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:05:28 +0000 (UTC) > Camaleon <noela...@gmail.co.> wrote, > > You should have choosen "LPT#1" in "connection type" step. > > OK. After choosing LPT#1 and putting my id > in /etc/group/"lpadmin", the configuration > finished; ... and the Device URI is listed > as "parallel:/dev/lp0" after all! > I wonder why not localhost:/dev/lp0 ?
Because the name before the ':' is the "backend" name, not a hostname. For parallel ports, this is "parallel", which actually means the program /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel will be run. Other backends such as "ipp", "http" and "socket" are for talking to network printers and "usb" and "serial" for other local connections, etc. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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