On Saturday 01 July 2006 18:38, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 01 July 2006 15:40, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > FWIW, I set this up before I read the conventional wisdom that one > > > should not > > > mix cups configuration and system-config-printer. I used both tools, > > > and have had no problems. HTH > > > > You are very lucky. > > CUPS is great when it is working. > > When it is not working it is a nightmare. > > The Fedora tools (like system-config-printer) don't work properly, > > and the CUPS documentation was written by cyborgs. > > Perhaps I was :-) but it worked for me! > > > Incidentally, you didn't mention /etc/cups/printers.conf . > > I have the line > > DeviceURI ipp://alfred:631/printers/lj > > in printers.conf on my laptop. > > (My desktop, to which the printer is attached, is called "alfred".) > > Here's the whole of it from the server: > > /etc/cups/printers.conf > > # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.23 > # Written by cupsd on Fri 23 Jun 2006 02:14:55 PM BST > <DefaultPrinter Printer> > DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0 > Location Default printer > Info Default printer > State Idle > Accepting Yes > JobSheets none none > QuotaPeriod 0 > PageLimit 0 > KLimit 0 > </Printer> > <Printer Draft> > DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0 > Location Four pages on 1 sheet > Info Four pages on 1 sheet > State Idle > Accepting Yes > JobSheets none none > QuotaPeriod 0 > PageLimit 0 > KLimit 0 > </Printer> > <Printer Photo> > DeviceURI usb:/dev/usb/lp0 > Location Gloss paper, hi-res, no duplex > Info Gloss paper, hi-res, no duplex > State Idle > Accepting Yes > JobSheets none none > QuotaPeriod 0 > PageLimit 0 > KLimit 0 > </Printer> > <Printer deskjet-990c--1> > DeviceURI > hal:///org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_3f0_3304_ES1271D1TZLG_if0_pri >nter_ES1271D1TZLG State Idle > Accepting Yes > JobSheets none none > QuotaPeriod 0 > PageLimit 0 > KLimit 0 > </Printer> > > This allows me to use kprinter from any app, selecting the configuration I > need, although they all refer to the same physical printer. > > /etc/cups/printer.conf on the client boxes is, of course, empty apart from > comments. > > Anne Hi Anne. I have now 5 distros, FC1,2,3, and 2 instances of FC5 on the machine that has the printer on it. All the distros are setup as printservers. I use static IP addresses on my LAN, so obviously all 5 are different. Both machines are connected via a layer 2 switch to a Smoothwall Express2 firewall, and then through a serial modem to ther Internet. Many of the distros on both machines also have, either Guarddog, or Firestarter (paranoia) as a bit of added security, so I'm having to allow port 631 on them. I have never been able to print directly from a client machine through any of the distros running a printserver, without setting up the distros on the client machine with the Cups web interface (localhost:631) , and setting the clients up to use ipp to connect to the distros running a print server. I have put the output of /etc/cups/printers.conf below. I have created separate printer entries for each of the distros running a print server, and realise from viewing various posts that I could have just used the network (192.168.0.0) address, which would have printed through whichever distro on the machine with the printer on it was booted up. I'm a bit confused. All the distros on the machine setup as a print server have no problems printing, but printing from the other machine creates problems, unless I set the distros on the client machine to use ipp. This is not a complaint, as it works ok as is. # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.20 # Written by cupsd on Fri 16 Jun 2006 22:42:59 CEST <DefaultPrinter netprint> Info Location ipp://192.168.0.230/printers/printer DeviceURI ipp://192.168.0.230/printers/printer State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer> <Printer netprint1> Info EpsonC44UX Location ipp://192.168.0.234/printers/printer DeviceURI ipp://192.168.0.234/printers/printer State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 </Printer> Nigel.
