Re: Printing Problems (2nd request)

On Thursday 16 December 2004 10:49, Joseph McCrary wrote:
  

Please help. If I cannot fix this printing problem, I will have to
abandon Linux for the hated world of Windoze!!!

Two weeks ago, I no longer could send a document to either printer. I've
got two printers connected, both of which used to work fine. One is a
Canon S600 connected to a USB port. The other is a HP LJ 6MP connected
through my local network. Both worked fine previously.

Whenever I try to print from a program (e.g., Firefox), the only printer
available is the PostScript default. Previously, both printers were
listed, with the HP as the default printer.

When I try to print a test page, I get this error:

lpr: error - unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable

I'm running Core 3, and have done all of the updates. I downloaded and
installed the latest version of CUPS (1.1.22). That did not help.

Here are the last few lines from cups.conf:

# Encryption: whether or not to use encryption; this depends on having
# the OpenSSL library linked into the CUPS library and scheduler.
#
# Possible values:
#
#     Always       - Always use encryption (SSL)
#     Never        - Never use encryption
#     Required     - Use TLS encryption upgrade
#     IfRequested  - Use encryption if the server requests it
#
# The default value is "IfRequested".
#

<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
</Location>

#<Location /classes>
#
# You may wish to limit access to printers and classes, either with Allow
# and Deny lines, or by requiring a username and password.
#
#</Location>

#<Location /classes/name>
#
# You may wish to limit access to printers and classes, either with Allow
# and Deny lines, or by requiring a username and password.
#
#</Location>

#<Location /jobs>
#
# You may wish to limit access to job operations, either with Allow
# and Deny lines, or by requiring a username and password.
#
#</Location>

#<Location /printers>
#
# You may wish to limit access to printers and classes, either with Allow
# and Deny lines, or by requiring a username and password.
#
#</Location>

#<Location /printers/name>
#
# You may wish to limit access to printers and classes, either with Allow
# and Deny lines, or by requiring a username and password.
#

## Anonymous access (default)
#AuthType None

## Require a username and password (Basic authentication)
#AuthType Basic
#AuthClass User

## Require a username and password (Digest/MD5 authentication)
#AuthType Digest
#AuthClass User

## Restrict access to local domain
#Order Deny,Allow
#Deny From All
#Allow From .mydomain.com
#</Location>

<Location /admin>
#
# You definitely will want to limit access to the administration functions.
# The default configuration requires a local connection from a user who
# is a member of the system group to do any admin tasks.  You can change
# the group name using the SystemGroup directive.
#

AuthType Basic
AuthClass System

## Restrict access to local domain
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1

#Encryption Required
</Location>

#
# End of "$Id: cupsd.conf.in,v 1.16 2004/08/18 17:53:47 mike Exp $".
#
<Location /printers/usblp0>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
AuthType None
</Location>
<Location /printers/s600-4>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
AuthType None
</Location>
# Lines below are automatically generated - DO NOT EDIT
<Location /printers/Canon>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
AuthType None
Allow from All
</Location>
<Location /printers/HP>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
Allow From 127.0.0.1
AuthType None
Allow from All
</Location>
Browsing On
BrowseProtocols cups
BrowseOrder Deny,Allow
BrowseAllow from @LOCAL
BrowseAddress 255.255.255.255
Listen *:631


Please help.

Joe
    

OK lets start with the basics, is the cups daemon running?  Set to start at 
startup?
       ps -ef | grep cups
       /sbin/chkconfig --list cups

If you do indeed see a cupsd in the output of the ps command, and runlevels 
2345 are set to on the chkconfig output.  Then run system-config-printers and 
make sure that your printers are configured correctly.  Delete them and 
reconfigure if required.  Test print from the printer config.  Post the 
resutls.