Which Mandrake version are you using, and when you use 7.2, which
printing system (CUPS or lpr)?
Till
Laurent Duperval wrote:
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> HI,
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> I've had less than stellar success trying to set up printers in Mandrake
> 7.1. Maybe someone has some ideas for me:
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> - First off, is it a good idea to use printtool to configure a printer? If
> not, that may be the source of my problem.
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> - I added a SMB printer and I eventually had to go deep into the filter
> scripts to find out that the filter scripts expected SAMBA 1.x installed.
> I had to manually fix the call to smbprint filter to remove the
> -E ${hostip:+-I} option to the smbprint command. It took me some time to
> figure this one out.
>
> - I now need to add another queue to a network printer. The printer has an
> IP address and you're supposed to be able to print to it directly. Doesn't
> seem to work for me and I'm not sure qhy yet. I'm hoping someone can help.
> What happens is that when I print, I get no errors. But when I do an lpq,
> I get:
>
> myhost: no space on remote; waiting for queue to drain
> Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
> 0 bytes
>
> No entries
>
> I've no idea what this means. I tried lpr -s to keep the file spooled on my
> machine, but the job just stays there and nothing happens. Eventually, lpq
> starts returning:
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> myhost: : Warning: no daemon present
> Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
> 0 bytes
>
> No entries
>
> As I said before, I used printtool to add the printer because it didn't look
> like Mandrake's printer setup tool supported adding a network printer (it's
> stand alone and isn't connected to a print server).
>
> I'm thinking it's a Mandrake problem because someone else here has a Red Hat
> 6.2 installation and he can print correctly, using printtool to set up his
> prointer.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> L
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