I'm new to Linux administration so please excuse my ignorance. I have an Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) installation with LTSP 5.2 installed. I'm using CUPS version 1.4.1. The other day I ran an lpoptions -d printername command not realizing that I was setting the system default incorrectly. Now my issue is that all apps see the CUPS printers correctly, except for Firefox which doesn't see any (Print to File only option). I've searched for hours trying to find the configuration file that this command impacted for Firefox with no luck. Does anyone have any ideas? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Jeff

The "print to file" option you see is not a Firefox window.

What your saying is that when you hit print in Firefox the only option available is print to file? But when you print in other applications you see your system default printer?

So did you try to set the default printer again?

The following command should show you the available printers:
lpstat -a

Then the following command to set it as default:
lpoptions -d <printer>

Yes, the only option upon hitting print in Firefox is print to file. I have 90 printers setup through CUPS that are shared on 3 different servers. I can see all of these printers from all applications except for Firefox. Since this is a Terminal Server environment, I should have set the default through the CUPS web interface, but instead ran the lpoptions command on this one server. This must have changed a system level setting somewhere for Firefox, but I can't seem to find the right config file to edit. I've gone through all of the Firefox about:config options but haven't found what I'm looking for.

Give this a go:

In the address field type "about:config"
In Filter field type "print"
Double click on print.printer_printer

This will show you the current default printer. Change this for the one that you would like to use as the default

I wasn't seeing an entry for print.printer_printer, but there were a lot of user set permissions on three other printers (one of those being print_to_file). I actually reset all of them (not what I planned on doing) closed/reopened and Firefox started seeing all the printers again. Then I went into System--> Administration-->Printing and set a system wide default. Now I can see it set as print.printer_printer when I go into about:config. Thanks for the tips. It's working again.

Jeff

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