Reiner Wenke wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed opensolaris b117 and wanted to print from firefox 3.5b4. > > I have a remote CUPS server and in order to use this server I disabled on the > opensolaris system the > services svc:/application/cups/in-lpd:default and > svc:/application/cups/scheduler:default. > Then I installed the /etc/cups/client.conf file with informations about the > remote CUPS server. > try as root, /usr/sbin/print-service -s cups You need the cups service to run on you local machine, so that the cupsd can talk to the remote server. The scripts print-service allows you to switch between lp and cups. /usr/sbin/print-service shows the options.
-Ghee > Afterwards lpstat is showing the printers on the CUPS server. If I open > OpenOffice, the print dialog is also showing the correct printers. > > But the firefox browser, opened with an account which has no .mozilla > directory, shows only the possibility of > printing to file. I had a look at the new .mozilla directory, created by the > browser, and surprisingly it shows in > prefs.js the default printer of the CUPS system, but only this one. Even if > restarting the browser with this > information he continues to show up only the "print to file" option. > > On an Solaris8 system with firefox 2.0.0.20 all printers of the remote CUPS > server are shown. > > Is this a known issue and if not, how can I resolve this situation? > > Thanks for any hints > Reiner Wenke > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
