On 8/2/05, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am having a problem so bizarre that in my mind that I don't where to > search for the answer. Maybe someone has an idea. > > As of last night I had a cups print server that could print to all of > our printers and also support printing to the printers from a print > client. > > All of the printers were configured through the web interface. Late > this morning I looked at the list of printers using the cups web > interface and found the following: > 1. All the printer displays said configuration of the printer should > be done with system-config-printer. > 2. The configuration had been changed on the server so that all of the > drivers to these HP printers had been changed to Raw Driver. For the Postscript > printers postscript files could be printed but text not. Yesterday > text, postscript and pdf files could be printed. > 3. For each printer displayed on the server the description field had > been erased and replaced with the statement that that the entry was > configured by redhat-config-printer. > 4. No browsing is occurring nor can the client print. If you try you > get an error : lpr: error - unable to print file: > server-error-service-unavailable > Which makes sense since there are no printers appearing in the CUPS > web interface for the client. > > The server is FC3 and the client is FC4. I am beginning to believe in > computer ghosts. I have working with computers for nearly 50 years and > have never been more frustrated. > > Ideas anyone? Disable cups-config-deamon service at the FC4 client. > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > telephone: (210)-999-7484 >
