No "Driver Settings" tab in print dialogue

[Marc Hansen]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:24:00 +0200
Michael Goffioul <goffioul at imec.be> wrote:

> > I am running current Debian unstable, with KDE 3.1.2, using CUPS. When I
> > print to my Epson C40-UX, there is no "Driver Settings" tab in the
> > properties dialogue, which means I can't change the paper type or print
> > resolution on a per-job basis.
> > 
> > >From looking at the KDEPrint homepage, this would appear to indicate that
> > the PPD file doesn't include this type of information. However, I can
> > change these things if I change the global driver settings for the printer
> > in KControl Centre.
> > 
> > I recall that some time ago (KDE 3.0?) the driver settings tab was there
> > for this printer.
> > 
> > Shouldn't there be a driver settings tab in the kprinter dialogue as well?
> > What could cause it to not show up? Could it be that something has changed
> > with the PPD file for this printer?
> 
> The common cause of this problem is the access restriction defined
> by default for the CUPS server (in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf), which
> forbid any non local connections to the CUPS server, and KDEPrint
> tries to use non local connections (not coming from 127.0.0.1).
> There are 2 workarounds:
> 1) in cupsd.conf, set the "ServerName" entry to "localhost", which
>    is OK in non network environment (not on a LAN)

Thanks a lot! :-)

Marc