-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. 8-) Ya' gotta' love it when they won't accept how you fixed your problem WITHOUT their help. - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFY3nFrItTyWRhT1YRAluJAJ4n8L5VHSUDQtw6KdOdDGYEMzmQywCfWhAc imlRdLxi43umfI0BNvXiwvU= =vvp8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----