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Thank you mase and narcisgarcia. The solution was to edit cupsd.conf as mase had stated earlier:

After that, adding the printer was successful.

I was then able to print a test page to a network printer from the cups http:\\localhost:631\ interface.

Unfortunately, when attempting to print from Firefox, the list of available printers put up by Firefox still comes up with no printers in it, even after setting the single printer as the default.

You can access this printing screen in Firefox by pulling up a map in Mapquest and clicking "Print this Map" on the page.

This may be a Firefox issue of not accessing available printers via CUPS.

I needed to manage CUPS with Iceweasel from Easy Debian, because with the default web browser couldn't press some links in CUPS web interface.

And with the same Iceweasel browser I can print because has full menus.

The package is still useless, while the backend folder keeps
empy.
Any solution? No packaging pros here?

I have followed all steps described above (edit cups.conf and lppasswd). when i try to add a printer over localhost:631 and i enter root and Password, it always says, Username or PW are wrong. what can be wrong?

I try to add a bluetooth-printer. the printer appears in the list and i have copy the ppd-file from my ubuntu desk system.

Thanks for help

EDIT: Now it works (after a reboot). I can add the BT-Printer. But the testpage ist not printed. It says, a filter was failled. I think, only copy the ppd-file is not enough. My Canon-MP630is not in the list. The Generic printer Driver dont work too.

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Wow, you guys came a long way. Thanks!

I'm in the middle of exams right now, but I am willing to put together some page describing the steps neccessary.

Then, I think it's time to develop a sharing pluging to be able to print in programs not supporting printing right now. Any ideas on this?

Nearly all programs do not support printing. Porting the latest version of
gtklp would help much. But the dependencies for it are hard to solve.
The one I have lready packaged does not provide a file-open dialog.
Only gtkpl <file> from the commandline is possible. The screen size
does not fit, too.
And i think, getting Nokia to support cups in their imageviewer and pdfviewer
is nearly impossible. I think, abiword could be rebuilt with cups support.

hi folks
i followed all here
cups is running but i need to acees localhost:631/admin to get the backend

and i cant choose any printers although i ln -s the backend?

can anyone help here?

Yes, at the moment you must symlink the backend.

hmm i did symlink and i edited cupsd.conf and i set lpadmin password.

but i cant add any browser the device list keeps empty.

any ideas?

maybe anyone could pastebin his cupsd.conf?

greetz

i solved it.
i had to link the single files. the linked ones in backend have been empty with the command here shown.

and i have changed some parts in cupsd.conf
cause after installation i didnt have one.

greetz