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Old 10-22-2010, 10:32 PM   #1
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Unhappy HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!How to enable Printer in CUPS using Command Line.

How to enable Printer in CUPS using Command Line?

Kindly help please.
 
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I found two links that might help:

http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sam.html#4_2

http://www.novell.com/documentation/...l/ch05s07.html
 
Old 05-18-2011, 02:23 PM   #3
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What used to be "enable" and "disable" on older Unix systems has been replaced with "cupsenable" and "cupsdisable" on CUPS-based Linux systems.

These commands reside in /usr/sbin

On OpenSUSE they are provided by the cups-client package
 
Old 05-19-2011, 08:39 PM   #4
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What used to be "enable" and "disable" on older Unix systems has been replaced with "cupsenable" and "cupsdisable" on CUPS-based Linux systems.

These commands reside in /usr/sbin

On OpenSUSE they are provided by the cups-client package
i already know sir and im doing it now on our works station.
using ssh

/usr/bin/enable (Printer Name)
service cups restart
service cups stop
service cups start


Thanks a lot sir.
 
  


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