Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Default printer in SL5

2008-01-07 Thread Steve White
Jon, Of course, I misspoke. Of course, CUPS was installed by default. I would never have been able to print at all without it. Where I said without CUPS running I meant the CUPS print server daemon cupsd. The problem remains that although the Gnome desktop offers several tools for configuring

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Default printer in SL5

2008-01-06 Thread Steve White
John, On 5.01.08, John Summerfield wrote: Steve White wrote: Paul, The CUPS print system wants you to use its configuration through the web browser at port 631. Assuming you have the httpd package installed, what happens ifyou browse http://localhost:631 The IPP protocol can be

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Default printer in SL5

2008-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Anderson
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Steve White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My colleague can configure his SL5 workstation to print without CUPS, using KDE. I gather from this discussion that the SL5 distro Gnome desktop does not provide a way to configure the system to print directly to a networked

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Default printer in SL5

2008-01-06 Thread Jan Iven
On 01/06/2008 04:23 PM, Jeffrey Anderson wrote: On Sunday 06 January 2008, Steve White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My colleague can configure his SL5 workstation to print without CUPS, using KDE. I gather from this discussion that the SL5 distro Gnome desktop does not provide a way to configure

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Default printer in SL5

2008-01-06 Thread Jon Peatfield
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Jeffrey Anderson wrote: On Sunday 06 January 2008, Steve White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My colleague can configure his SL5 workstation to print without CUPS, using KDE. I gather from this discussion that the SL5 distro Gnome desktop does not provide a way to configure the

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Default printer in SL5

2008-01-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 5, 2008 3:32 AM, Steve White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, On 4.01.08, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 8:09 AM, Steve White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using Scientific Linux 5, and trying to connect to our IPP printers (or printer server, I'm not sure). The only

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Default printer in SL5

2008-01-05 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 8:09 AM, Steve White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using Scientific Linux 5, and trying to connect to our IPP printers (or printer server, I'm not sure). The only mechanism provided by this distribution for Gnome printer configuration is

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Default printer in SL5

2008-01-05 Thread Steve White
Paul, On 4.01.08, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 8:09 AM, Steve White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using Scientific Linux 5, and trying to connect to our IPP printers (or printer server, I'm not sure). The only mechanism provided by this distribution for Gnome printer

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Default printer in SL5

2008-01-05 Thread John Summerfield
Steve White wrote: Paul, The CUPS print system wants you to use its configuration through the web browser at port 631. Assuming you have the httpd package installed, what happens ifyou browse http://localhost:631 The IPP protocol can be specified there as one of the options on the second

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Default printer in SL5

2008-01-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 4, 2008 8:09 AM, Steve White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using Scientific Linux 5, and trying to connect to our IPP printers (or printer server, I'm not sure). The only mechanism provided by this distribution for Gnome printer configuration is system-config-printer. I finally