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From: Duane Clark <junkmail@junkmail.com>
Subject: Re: cups
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:03:04 -0800 References: <3E70BA4D.9060007@houston.rr.com> <Xns933D80EFC8043jg2gclannet@127.0.0.1> <3E71FB14.1080205@houston.rr.com>

Gale Gorman wrote:
> Jerry Gardner wrote:
> 
>>Gale Gorman wrote:
>>
>>>In the "Official Red Hat Linux Administrator's Guide" I am told to point 
>>>my browser to http://localhost:631 and when I do I am asked for a 
>>>username and password but there is no place to register.
>>
>>Give it your normal username and password. If you need to certain things 
>>that require more privilege, then give it root and root's password.
>>
> That got me into cups just fine, I configured my printer and cups 
> reported that was successful.  However, it still will not print.
> 

Redhat uses a set of symbolic links in /etc/alternatives to determine 
what printing system to use. For example, you will probably find the file:
print-lp -> /usr/bin/lp.LPRng

That means it is configured to use LPRng. All that is required to use 
CUPS is to change all those links to point to the CUPS version of the 
programs. So that for example:
print-lp -> /usr/bin/lp.cups

In theory, Redhat supplies a program to do that, but it is not installed 
by default. It is just as easy to do it by hand. Just take a look at the 
files in /etc/alternatives and /usr/bin, and it should be fairly obvious 
what needs to be changed.

-- 
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).

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