[FreeNX-kNX] Cups 1.2.7 IPP_PORT solution

[Kurt Pfeifle]

On Tuesday 12 December 2006 20:22, Marcel kraan wrote:
> What the problems was..
> I have the printer listed in kcontrol
> but was not available in firefox, openoffice etc etc..
> 
> the IPP_PORT solved this problem in fedora 3 4 5 but in NOT in fc 6

I suspect the problem was not the fedora version per se, but the 
CUPS upgrade from 1.1 to 1.2 (with the the assorted changes in the 
interfaces).

> Tim Waugh said don't use the IPP_PORT  but write it in the ~/.cups/client.conf
> this is working.

As I said... this is overriding the unix domain socket communication 
default, and it tells it to use TCP/IP socket.

> Now there is a bug in the printdialog from gtk2
> openoffice sees the printer but it's not possible to click the print button

So.... did you test what I adviced?  (I can't do it myself since I have
no suitable Linux system available to do this right now... Damned thieves!)



> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 December 2006 19:11, Marcel kraan wrote:
> >> I have talked to Tim Waugh and he told me :
> >>
> >> Don't set IPP_PORT in the environment; instead put 'ServerName
> >> localhost:10000' in your client.conf (~/.cups/client.conf
> >> or /etc/cups/client.conf).
> > 
> > Depending on what *exactly* you want to achieve, using the env
> > var or using the client.conf setting has different trade-offs,
> > which I have no time to go into right now.
> > 
> > You didn't say what you want to achieve in your original post,
> > you just said you used the variable, and described some problems
> > with it on CUPS 1.2.