On Tuesday 21 November 2006 20:52, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 18:48 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 November 2006 18:34, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 21 November 2006 18:23, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > > > Do you think it sounds like you're experiencing bug #213119?
> > >
> > > It looks very much like it, which is why I was looking for the 'fix'
> > > recommended. I tried the python command, too, which returned:
> > >
> > > python -c "import cups;c=cups.Connection();print c.getPPD('Draft')"
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > File "<string>", line 1, in ?
> > > cups.IPPError: (1280, 'server-error-internal-error')
> > >
> > > Does that tell you anything?
> >
> > I'm going to be shouted at for this, but it needs to be said, because it
> > may tell you what's really causing the problem.
> >
> > In the past I always put the servername into client.conf. A couple of
> > months ago I was told very firmly that I was wrong to do so, as it would
> > stop printer-browsing occurring. I don't have any local printers, so it
> > had never caused me any problems, but, bowing to the experience of
> > others, I removed the reference. Everything seemed to work well enough,
> > so I wasn't worried.
>
> You can pint to any remote printer on the same lan with or without the
> defining of the Server in the client.conf file. You can'r print to
> remote printers on as different lan without the server defined. With the
> server defined you can't print to a local printer. As long as you are
> dealing with remote printers on the same Lan the answer to printing
> under cup to a remote printer is to do nothing. It works out of the box
> so to speak.
>
No, it doesn't. That's the whole point. It does for many apps, but not for
OpenOffice.
Anne
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