Vaughn Treude wrote: > Hello folks: > > I'm trying to get CUPS printing working on a Mandrake 8 system. I'm > attempting to print to an HP deskjet on a Windows 98 system. For some > reason, I can't seem to get it configured right. Mandrake's GUI control > center has a bug that allows me to add a network printer but not configure it > (it doesn't accept any keystrokes into any of the fields.) So I tried it > manually. > > Here's printers.conf: > Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.7 > # Written by cupsd on Fri Sep 24 13:47:22 2004 > > Location > DeviceURI smb://pamela:@pamela/HP > State Idle > Accepting Yes > JobSheets none none > > > Location > DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lp0 > State Idle > Accepting Yes > JobSheets none none > > > (I had a local printer option because I had a printer there that failed; > perhaps I should remove the entry.) > And here's the Security Options section of cupsd.conf: > > Order Deny,Allow > Deny From All > Allow From 127.0.0.1 > Allow From 192.168.1.* > Allow From 192.168.0.* > > > Looks like it should work. The cups error_log file shows that it does indeed > TRY to print somesting, but that the backend fails with Status 2 (whatever > that is.) One of the puzzlers is the mention of the file foomatic-rip, which > does not exist on my system. Why didn't that get installed with cups? Was > HP supposed to supply that? Or is it supposed to be set to some other filter > file. In the /usr/lib/cups/filter directory, there is a file called > hpgltops, maybe that's the one the system should be using. Here's the > error_log output: > > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StartJob: filter = > "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip" > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[1] = 8, 11 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] > start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip", bfff7430, bfff28e0, 9, 11, > 7) > I [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] Started filter > /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 28566) for job 18. > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StartJob: backend = "/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb" > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StartJob: filterfds[0] = -1, 9 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] start_process("/usr/lib/cups/backend/smb", > bfff7430, bfff28e0, 8, 9, 7) > I [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb (PID > 28567) for job 18. > E [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PID 28566 stopped with status 2! > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] Page = 612x792; 18,36 to 594,783 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] pw = 576.0, pl = 747.0 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageLeft = 18.0, PageRight = 594.0 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageTop = 783.0, PageBottom = 36.0 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip: No such > file or directory > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] pw = 576.0, pl = 747.0 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageLeft = 18.0, PageRight = 594.0 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageTop = 783.0, PageBottom = 36.0 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] CloseClient() 4 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] UpdateJob: job > 18, file 0 is complete. > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] CancelJob: id = 18 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StopJob: id = 18 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:32 -0700] StopJob: printer state is 3 > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:45 -0700] NFO: Parallel port busy; will retry in 30 > seconds... > D [19/Oct/2004:03:00:45 -0700] mallinfo: arena = 1841504, used = 1205088, > free = 636416 > > Note that after it gives up on the samba printer it tries to print to the > parallel port - there's no printer there, so I'm not surprised that it's busy. > > Any suggestions? > Thanks! > Vaughn > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > I don't know off hand. There's a very good description of cups/samba printing at http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/CUPS-printing.html It's a good read just for learning cups, whether you're using samba or not. -- -Eric 'shubes' "There is no such thing as the People; it is a collectivist myth. There are only individual citizens with individual wills and individual purposes." -William E. Simon (1927-2000), Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977) "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237 **************************************************** This message has been scanned using Contraxx Technology Group mail server v2.3 and is virus free. **************************************************** --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss