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desertViking

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 170

Recovering cups configuration

Hi,

I've been doing two out of three falls trying to get my parallel port printer to be shared on a SAMBA network.  That's a posting for another thread :->

In the process, I made some changes to my cupsd.conf file.  Don't know what I did, but now whenever I try to access the cups server through localhost:631, or through the KDE control center, I get an error that it cannot read the list of printers.  I've tried to undo my changes, but in my zeal, I must confess that I didn't save a backup file :-<

Can I resync with the pacman database, and reload cups to get a fresh copy of all the configuration files, or is there a better  way?

Thx in advance!

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desertViking

Member

From: Arizona

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 170

Re: Recovering cups configuration

These are the error messges I'm getting
Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager:
Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: host not found.The CUPS servier is running, though obviously not correctly.

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normc

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2004-06-28

Posts: 277

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Re: Recovering cups configuration

When I got this message it was because the HOST was not setup correctly.

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Norm