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Author: Marjorie Roome
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Priter trouble again.
Hi Hendrick,

On Sat, 2022-01-01 at 15:07 -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I installed CUPS a part of the standard istall long ago.
> I had no trouble configuring it back the to talk sweet to me printer.
> Worked fine. Bu tnow it doesn't.
>
> The printer seems to hae changed its IP number.
> Now I can tell it explicitly what IP numder to use by entering stuff
> in its
> physical control panel. So all I should have to do is to set its IP
> number to
> whatever CUPS (now unsuccessfuly) uses to talk to it.
>
> What I don't know is how to get CUPS to tell me what IP number it
> currently thinks
> belongs to the printer.
>
> There should be some simple way of asking CUPS to tell me this.
>
> -- hendrik

I'm unclear if you've got this fixed yet.

On my PC I simply load the CUPS webpage (its on localhost:631) and,
having selected the printer (by name), it shows its IP on the
connection line:

Connection:ipp://192.168.1.211/ipp/port1

--
Marjorie