On Tuesday 10 January 2006 00:08, Ankush Grover wrote: >On 1/10/06, fredex <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> HI: >> >> Newly setup FC4 on a home LAN. Attempting to set up printer, start >> the printer setup tool, it shows the print queues already existing >> on the "other" linux box that it found by searching the net. Trouble >> is, I can't print to any of them. It'll let me select one and "send" >> a test page to it but nothing ever happens. The printer-setup-tool hasn't been able to 'get it right' that I know of. Please use the cups web interface by pointing your browser at localhost:631. Once you get used to it, its a piece of cake. >> So I try to configure manually one of them, go thru the settings >> to make it an IPP printer and print to it and nothing happens. >> >> I finally got the printer on my wife's XP box to print by manually >> setting it up as a SMB printer. >> >> but I'm puzzled, it shouldn't be hard, anybody got a clue for me? >> >> Fred > >hey, > > >What is the model no and the manufacturer name ? > >Sometimes the LPD protocol should be running for some printers.You can > try with LPD protocol running. > > >You can see in the /var/log/cups/error_log or /var/log/cups/access_log > what is the message when you send the print to that printer. > > >Regards > >Ankush -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
