On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Stephen Horton wrote:
> I too have had problems with CUPS on 7.2 - I've gone back to lpd but
> cannot get kmail to print either. Thankfully, I normally use pine and
> have had no probs printing with it.
what permissions on the directories /var/spool/lpd and below do
you have ?
>
> I'm not sure that the problem is printer related as I have a Canon
> bjc-4300 and a Brother hl-1030 running from my linux box - both run OK
> under lpd - but neither ran under CUPS.
>
>
true - if you take a look at the original (repreduced below) the
printer queue or indeed the existance of a valid file are an irrelevance;
despite lpd running in the process table it doesn't seem to be
doing anything
What did you do to isolate CUPS ?
cherrs, Kyle
================== original post ===================
with regard to Mandrake 7.2 (with all recent .rpms installed)
a simple command such as lpr -Ptext foo.txt
yields the fault :
lpr : unable to print to file : the requested resource is unavailable on
the server
This fault occurs with either an appropriate /etc/printcap or an
empty printcap or the existance or otherwise of foo.txt
