I loaded 7.1 and used printer-config and it worked. After about a week I tried to print something to my Local laserjet and it failed. Using lpq I found that lpd is trying to send my print job to a remote printer on localbus! I brought up printer-config and it looked right, at least indicated a "local" printer. I deleted the entery and re-loaded it. The gui thing was happy but it still doesn't print. I looked at man lpr and was scared to death! That has been re-written into a bear of a thing to set up! I suppose it's better for automated devices..... I have re-loaded the printer 4 more times and even tried to get aps4 to work. At this point I cannot print from version 7.1, but version 6.1 still works fine.
We never shipped printer-config (it was part of rawhide some time between 6.1 and 6.2); assuming you mean printconf and reassigning.
Sorry, I'm talking about the printer configuration tool that you bring up in Gnome that is exactly named "Printer Configuration". I click on that, a panel comes up asking for root password and then a dialog box comes up where you can click help and it tells you how to set up a local printer.. I have re-done this many times and it now will not work. It did work for less than a week.
Well after recalling that I changed the hostname of my computer to my own from what you ship it as and that's when printing stopped working. I used linuxconf to change the hostname and that may not be the right way to do it, but it's NOT covered in any Red Hat Manual. So a few minutes ago I went back and re-did the linuxconfig networking hostname thing with more completeness. I made up an ip number and name to make cannac 44.30.2.5 which I put in the proper places. I did NOT activate the listing and put none after kernel drivers ect. I then made sure that linuxconf did the proper thing and my printing is odd compared to Red Hat 6.1 but it now works to a local printer. I'm a long time linux user. This problem I think will cause many new users a problem if they try to re-set the computer hostname. You need to re-create this problem and find a solution. kfl
On one system, I was able to flawlessly install a laserjet 4 printer using the gui. On a different system, also loaded with Red Hat 7.1, I was unable to to install an HP DeskJet 780Cxi printer. It seems that the printer configuration files in /etc, i.e. printcap and printcap.local are unchanged after use of the gui. As a result, lpd detects no printers are defined, and printing a test page from the gui results in an error message that the program was unable to connect with localhost most likely because lpd is not running. I checked my printer interface to /dev/lp0 by using a series of command such as: echo "string" > /dev/lp0 and was able to get the printer to print a page. So the interface to the printer is functioning.
Hmmm. /etc/printcap is unchanged and you get an error message. See bugzilla #53766. You may need to install the perl package.