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On Tuesday 06 January 2009 15:39:48 I wrote: |
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> I have a server with two printers connected, set up using the cups Web |
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> page and operating properly. Now I want to send print jobs to them from |
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> my workstation, which is on the same network, and with the same version |
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> of cups: 1.3.9-r1. One of the printers is an HP Deskjet D4260, so I also |
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> have hplip version 2.8.6b installed on both machines. I can connect |
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> either printer to either machine and print locally without any problems. |
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> However, I cannot get anything to print over the network. If, on the |
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> workstation, I declare the network laser printer and connect to it, all |
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> appears to work until I send a print job to it; the job sits in the lp |
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> queue locally, and when I next look at the status of the printer it |
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> says "Destination printer does not exist!" |
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> If I try to set up the Deskjet as a remote printer in the local cups |
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> server, I get "Filter "foomatic-rip" for printer "HP_Deskjet_D4260" not |
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> available: No such file or directory". |
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> I don't know what to try next. Anyone any idea here? |
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Well, I don't know what I did differently, but once again I zapped the |
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server root partition, recovered it from a known good, minimal backup, |
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brought it up to date and set cups up again. Now when I go to a client box |
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and run the KDE printer setup utility, it shows the printers and even |
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allows me to configure them. I don't touch the cups server on the client, |
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other than to point /etc/cups/client.conf to the server. |
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There are still some oddities, but those can wait now. |
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Thanks to all for their help. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |