CUPS nightmare
Bill Johnson
Bill at JohnsonAcres.com
Tue Oct 28 02:24:12 UTC 2003
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, nosp wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 16:29, Bill Johnson wrote:
> > Printing from laptop worked fine under previous config (Redhat 7.3 was on
> > previously on server, and printing was via lpd), but I cannot get printing
> > to work from laptop now.
> >
> > Cups is installed on server and printer works fine when printing from
> > server.
> >
> > Printer has been configured on laptop every possible way, but will not
> > print. Have read google posts, howtos, and cups docs for 2 days, but
> > nothing works.
> >
> > nmap shows port 631 on server, but DOES NOT show it on laptop. Firewalls
> > are completely off on both laptop and server.
>
> Can you telnet from the laptop to port 631 of the server? Do you have
> cups installed on the laptop? Can the laptop tell you the status of the
> server print queue (run lpq -P<printqueuename> on the laptop)? Are you
> seeing any error messages on the server in /var/log/messages or
> /var/log/cupsd/errorlog?
>
No I cannot telnet to port 631 - here is result of my attempt:
[bill at dhcppc1 bill]$ telnet NEC:631
NEC:631: Unknown host
[bill at dhcppc1 bill]$
Yes, I have cups installed on both laptop and server. I can restart on
both systems via /sbin/service restart cups. I can manage the cups app in
both systems via the web interface - http://localhost:631
No I cannot tell the status. In an earlier post, I mentioned that I have
2 queues defined now on the server (HP841C and HP841C_SHARED), and I have
one on the laptop (HP841C_LOCAL). Here is the result of the lpq command
on each:
[bill at dhcppc1 bill]$ lpq -PHP841C
Printer: HP841C at localhost - ERROR: spool queue for 'hp841c' does not exist
on server localhost.localdomain
non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f'
[bill at dhcppc1 bill]$ lpq -PHP841C_LOCAL
Printer: hp841c_local at localhost - ERROR: spool queue for 'hp841c_local'
does not exist on server localhost.localdomain
non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f'
[bill at dhcppc1 bill]$ lpq -PHP841C_SHARED
Printer: HP841C_SHARED at localhost - ERROR: spool queue for 'hp841c_shared'
does not exist on server localhost.localdomain
non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f'
[bill at dhcppc1 bill]$
Obviously, I have something messed up. Any suggestions where else to
look? Your advise and expertise and greatly appreciated. I'm always
amazed at the quick responses I get from these newsgroups.
Regards,
Bill Johnson
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