Newbie Just Tryin' to Print from KDE

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Chris Howells wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday 26 January 2003 18:13, C. K. Lester wrote:
> 
>>FreeBSD 4.7
>>Epson Stylus Color 900 (does not support PostScript)
>>XPP is installed
>>I thought I had CUPS installed. When I type "cupsd" as root from / it gives
>>no message. When I "ps -a" afterwards, I don't see anything about CUPS. I'm
>>running the latest stable KDE.
> 
> 
> Have you installed Cups from packages or ports? If you head to 
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d, you should see a script to start cups. If it's called 
> cups.sh.sample or similair, move it to cups.sh. You can now start cups by 
> doing:
> 
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start
> 
> do a
> 
> ps aux | grep cups
> 
> to check that it is indeed running. After you've got the cups server running, 
> you can configure it by going to http://localhost:631

Not *exactly* true. The *server* (meaning the CUPS daemon) is configured
by editing cupsd.conf (or by using the KDE kcontrol modul for "Printing
Manager" and clicking on the icon named "Configure Server").

Via http://localhost:631/ you can manage *printers*, *classes*, *jobs* and
*read documentation* -- but not configure the server itself...

Cheers,
Kurt