cups and my network printer

[Jason Spiro]

On 5/25/06, Paul King <pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Thanks to Jason Spiro for a suggestion I haven't thought of.
My pleasure.
>
[snip]
> There is a tool called "cupsdconf" which tells me "Unable to retrieve
> configuation file from CUPS server." It tells me that I may not have
> permission to access these files. It also tells me this when I am root.

You are on Debian?
Is CUPS installed and running?

Try these. What do you get?

ps aux | grep cups | grep -v grep
sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys status
firefox http://localhost:631
nmap localhost

Please CC me on all replies.
Cheers,
Jason
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