Hello everybody, According to the Gentoo Printing Guide -> Installing the Printer, I'm to go to http://localhost:631 and then click on "Administration". Well, there's "Do Administrative Tasks", so I clicked on that. The guide says to "enter root login and password" into the box but the box only asks for username. Whatever, I tried them both. All that happens is that the a new blank box opens and asks me to enter the info again and so on and so on.
Yes, cups is emerged and cupsd is started. Anybody else encountered this? An attempt at printing returned this error to the log: ... I [20/Jan/2006:08:18:28 -0700] Listening to 0:631 I [20/Jan/2006:08:18:28 -0700] Loaded configuration file "/etc/cups/cupsd.conf" I [20/Jan/2006:08:18:28 -0700] Configured for up to 100 clients. I [20/Jan/2006:08:18:28 -0700] Allowing up to 100 client connections per host. I [20/Jan/2006:08:18:28 -0700] Full reload is required. I [20/Jan/2006:08:18:28 -0700] LoadPPDs: Read "/etc/cups/ppds.dat", 13 PPDs... I [20/Jan/2006:08:18:28 -0700] LoadPPDs: No new or changed PPDs... I [20/Jan/2006:08:18:28 -0700] Full reload complete. E [20/Jan/2006:08:18:28 -0700] StartListening: Unable to find IP address for ser ver name "sarawak" - Host name lookup failure (END) The server name I just made up cause the Gentoo install docs suggested I have one. Do I actually have to call it "localhost" in order for printing to work?! According to cupsd.conf HostNameLookups defaults to 'off'. Am I a victim of anti-dialup discrimination? :-( Oh, the humanity! And can somebody explain the need to use http to set up a printer on one's own computer? Afterall PC *does* mean personal computer. I'm assuming that localhost:631 is on my own machine. But even so it seems a bit much. -mw __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
