It seems I am having lots of problems with cups. When I installed Mandrake
7.2, it found my epson 777 printer and set it up as a 740. There were no
drivers for 777. I got a great test page and since then I haven't been able
to do a thing with it. It seems that the cups dameon just stops running.
After I start the machine I do a service cups status, I get back it's running
and a pid number. After about 5 minutes, the status returns cups is stopped.
I restart it and 5 minutes later it's stopped. I am really at a loss here.
I will be back to the how-to's today. But has anyone else encountered this?
BTW my printer is attached to a machine that is a Mandrake 7.2 linux machine
that will be acting as a home server. On a windows client I can see the
printer in samba, which is probably a result of setting it up the samba
shares. Locally on the box I am unable to print anything, and I need to do
this cli since my mouse decied to stop working under X this morning.
When I use a client and netscpae to connect to http://"server":631 I get to
the cups setup and the printer is there and configured, but I am unable to
print a test page because server.domain.com not located, so I know I have a
network issue to resolve with addressing, but since samba is displaying the
shares and printer I should still be able to print that way for the moment if
I get this issue with dying dameon resolved shouldn't I.
Since I will be scouring how-to's and faq's if anyone has some good ones
besides the ones on mandrakeuser.org to point me to I would appreciate it.
BTW this machine is current as of 1/15 with all the updates for 7.2.
Thanks,
Jerry
