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I've installed cups and cups-client.

I'm in the lpadmin group.

Now when I click on 'Add Printer' in the Administration nothing happens.

The access log says it was successful though.

localhost - - [11/May/2012:13:43:49 +0200] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.0" 200 60 - -
localhost - - [11/May/2012:13:43:49 +0200] "POST /admin/ HTTP/1.0" 200 4987 - -

EDIT: it does not work with localhost:631 or 127.0.0.1:631 but with the ipv6 version http://[::1]:631

EDIT2: contents of /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1   localhost

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

EDIT3: changed the first line of the /etc/hosts to 127.0.0.1 localhost ipv4-localhost ipv4-loopback, still don't working. if I bind cups to 127.0.0.1 it is obviously not reachable via [::1]:631 but still not working via 127.0.0.1/localhost either.

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i.e. with ipv6 it works? :) Also, what is the value of AuthType for CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer (if it is Default then provide DefaultAuthType too). – barti_ddu May 11 '12 at 18:29
it only works with ipv6. DefaultAuthType is Basic and AuthType for everything in the config is Default. – snippl May 12 '12 at 7:53
good; now post contents of your /etc/hosts file. – barti_ddu May 12 '12 at 11:56
1. try changing entry 127.0.0.1 localhost in /etc/hosts -> 127.0.0.1 localhost ipv4-localhost ipv4-loopback (restart cups after that); 2. you may also try to bind cups to ipv4 explicitely (by changing Listen localhost:631 -> Listen 127.0.0.1:631 in cups conf). – barti_ddu May 12 '12 at 12:56

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