Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 172811
printconf-tui can't set the default printer when using a remote server
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:21 EST
Description of problem: When using a central cups server and modifying /etc/cups/client.conf and setting ServerName to a remote server, the printconf-tui tools is unable to set the default printer. I realize using a remote cups server, there isn't much to be configured with system-config-printer, but I would like to be able to set the default printer from the command line. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-printer-0.6.116.4-1 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup a cups server to be accessible remotely 2. edit /etc/cups/client.conf and set ServerName to the cups server 3. restart cups 4. lpstat -v should show all of the printers 5. Run 'printconf-tui --Xdefault --queue=printer' Actual results: No error message, but lpstat -d still shows the original default printer. Expected results: The default printer should change Additional info: Using printconf-gui, the printers show up in "browsed queues". From there I am able to set the default printer. This change is reflected in lpstat -d.
You need to run '/usr/sbin/printconf-backend' (or reboot) after the printconf-tui command. The printconf-tui command updates the XML configuration; printconf-backend updates the CUPS configuration from the XML configuration. Setting to NEXTRELEASE, because the next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux makes this sort of thing much simpler.