[Cialug]printing

David Champion dave at visionary.com
Mon Feb 6 10:15:40 CST 2006


Make sure you have the "cups" package installed, and the cups service is 
running. Then open a web browser and connect to:

http://127.0.0.1:631

That's the cups web interface. You should be able to config your printer 
from there.

-dc

Dan Hockey wrote:
> I'm trying to install a usb laser printer on mandriva 2k6 and everytime 
> I click on the "setup printers icon" the linux control center locks up 
> and doesn't display anything.UsbView sees the printer just fine.I was 
> orignally trying to set this up as a shared network(linux laptop to xp) 
> printer on the winxp pro box the printer sets next to. Googling and 
> Yahooing has found a mess of generic stuff but nothing that has helped.
> -dh




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