To Till Kamppeter,
Re CUPS.
I have two machines on a LAN, say called 'one' and 'two'. One has a
deskjet 970cxi attached to the parallel port. Two is a gateway
machine to the internet with two NICs.
One may be running either Mandrake 7.2, fully updated, or Windows 98
SE.
Two runs either 7.2, fully updated, or today's Cooker and has no
local printer.
Two therefore has Kups set up with two printers, a remote CUPS
printer, and an SMB remote printer. Properly, kups on two comes up
with one printer disabled, which one depending which OS is running on
one.
Kups Bug: On two, running Cooker, with the SMB printer disabled in
kups, kups keeps producing a modal dialog box every few seconds
stating that the printer (does not say which printer) is
inacessible. When this modal box is up, kups itself is inaccesible.
Surely when a printer is marked as disabled, kups should not be
trying to access it? Also, the dbox should not be modal, so that
other printers can be used.
Xpp Bug: On two, running 7.2, xpp seems to be keeping its own
independent history of all printers that have ever been connected to
this machine, and dutifully produces all these printers listed in its
window with no right click option to remove a printer. Surely, like
kups, it should only use the printers broadcast to it by the printer
servers?
Further, xpp makes an incorrect default printer selection (the
bullet). Surely it should NEVER select an inaccessible printer as
the default printer?
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
