Try this,
Open a root shell
type cupsd
that should start the cups daemon and you should be able to setup printers etc.
HTH
Knoppix 3.7, installed to hard disk
When trying to setup a printer I get the following message:
"Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager:
Connection to CUPs server failed. Check that CUPs server is correctly
installed and running. Error correction refused."
On another machine I have installed this version of Linux I
have not received this error.
Any help in solving this problem would be very gratefully received.
Victor Warner
Try this,
Open a root shell
type cupsd
that should start the cups daemon and you should be able to setup printers etc.
HTH
Rusty,
Thank you for your reply. Seems to have done the trick.
Victor Warner

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