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keywords:cups,print,printing,cupsrc,lpr,lp,lpstat, description:Hints and configuration for CUPS title:Common Unix Printing System notes - check your local .cupsrc - The server has to be browseable for lpstat and lpstat.cups to work - Connection refused could mean that you are connecting to the wrong server. - The -h arg to lpstat does NOT override .cupsrc - It is best to avoid lp and lpr and just use kprinter - If your non-root printing manager can't contact a running cups server, then it is probably an access list problem. Working config with comments removed. Created by cupsdconf. Classification none DefaultCharset UTF-8 DefaultLanguage en Printcap /etc/printcap PrintcapFormat BSD RemoteRoot remroot SystemGroup sys ServerCertificate /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt ServerKey /etc/cups/ssl/server.key <Location /> Encryption IfRequested Satisfy All Order deny,allow Deny From All Allow From 127.0.0.1 </Location> <Location /admin> Encryption IfRequested Satisfy All Order allow,deny </Location> HostnameLookups Off KeepAlive On KeepAliveTimeout 60 MaxClients 100 MaxRequestSize 0m Timeout 300 Listen *:631 AccessLog /var/log/cups/access_log ErrorLog /var/log/cups/error_log PageLog /var/log/cups/page_log MaxLogSize 0m LogLevel info PreserveJobHistory On PreserveJobFiles Off AutoPurgeJobs No MaxJobs 0 MaxJobsPerPrinter 0 MaxJobsPerUser 0 User lp Group sys RIPCache 8m FilterLimit 0 DataDir /usr/share/cups DocumentRoot /usr/share/cups/doc RequestRoot /var/spool/cups ServerBin /usr/lib/cups ServerRoot /etc/cups TempDir /var/spool/cups/tmp Browsing On BrowseProtocols CUPS BrowsePort 631 BrowseInterval 30 BrowseTimeout 300 BrowseAllow From 127.0.0.1 BrowseOrder allow,deny ImplicitClasses On ImplicitAnyClasses Off HideImplicitMembers Yes BrowseShortNames Yes