Quote Originally Posted by toaster2
Thanks for your help, it is much appreciated! I already checked that the cupsd daemon is running. I got the menus from http://localhost:631/. I have a question (pardon my ignorance) exactly how does that mechanism work? I never typed anything like that in my web browser, so please explain me briefly what is happening.
Frank
With the browser using that line you are connecting directly to the CUPS server. This allows you to do pretty much anything you want to configure your printer(s). What exactly is wrong does your printer not show up anymore? If so check /etc/cups/printers.conf and make sure apt has not replaced your configuration with the default one if so then your old config should be /etc/cups/printers.conf.dpkg-old just copy it back over the new one and restart the server (/etc/init.d/cupsys restart as root) and see if that helps.