lpr problems

[jerry davis]

On Saturday 24 December 2005 10:13 pm, FoulDragon at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/24/2005 10:08:50 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
>
> jdawgaz at cox.net writes:
> >EPSON|EPSON:rm=localhost:rp=EPSON:
>
> It seems to be trying to print to the local machine, not 192.168.1.106
>
>
> From the page I linked, it seemed to imply, making an entry for the server
> in the host file, then changing the "rm=localhost" to refer to that name,
> might just do it.

I saw that, but when I changed it and restarted cups, cups rewrote it.

printcap:
# This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
# /etc/cups/printers.conf file.  All changes to this file
# will be lost.
EPSON|EPSON:rm=frodo.localhost:rp=EPSON:

/etc/cups/printers.conf:
# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23
# Written by cupsd on Sat 24 Dec 2005 09:35:50 PM MST
<DefaultPrinter EPSON>
Info
Location
DeviceURI ipp://192.168.1.100/USB1
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
</Printer>


How it got frodo.localhost out of what is in the /etc/cups/printer.conf file I 
cannot figure out.

What a bummer, cups has always been good to me, what the world is going on 
now, I don't know.

Jerry

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