On Friday 25 November 2005 12:14, Michael Kintzios wrote: > Hi All, > > I am sure that this is an easy thing to achieve, but for some reason I > seem to fail to get it going. Probably because I do not completely > understand the logic. The setup is as follows: > > I have two boxen, hostname1.STUDY and hostname2.STUDY. hostname2 has the > printer connected to it via parallel port. The printer's name is > Compaq-HP. Hostname2 can print locally without a hitch. > > I created a new printer on hostname1 and also named it Compaq-HP. I set > the ipp address to ipp://hostname2.STUDY/ipp but I kept getting errors > telling me it can't resolve the address. So I changed it to the LAN ip > address (ipp://192.163.0.3/ipp)and it seems that it can now connect, but > it cannot find the printer: > ========================================= > I [21/Nov/2005:21:55:47 +0000] [Job 44] Connecting to 192.168.0.3 on > port 631... > I [21/Nov/2005:21:55:47 +0000] [Job 44] Connected to 192.168.0.3... > D [21/Nov/2005:21:55:47 +0000] [Job 44] Getting supported attributes... > E [21/Nov/2005:21:55:47 +0000] [Job 44] Destination printer does not > exist! > E [21/Nov/2005:21:55:49 +0000] PID 15530 stopped with status 1! > ========================================= > > lpstats shows both printers (local and remote): > ========================================= > $ lpstat -t > scheduler is running > system default destination: Compaq-HP > device for Compaq-HP: ipp://192.168.0.3/ipp > device for DeskJet-930C: parallel:/dev/lp0 > Compaq-HP accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00 > DeskJet-930C accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00 > printer Compaq-HP is idle. enabled since Jan 01 00:00 > printer DeskJet-930C disabled since Jan 01 00:00 - > Paused > ========================================= > > Would you know why it can't resolve hostname2.STUDY? Am I meant to add > the printer name on the ipp://192.168.0.3/ipp? > > Regards, > -- > Mick
maybe adding "192.168.0.3 hostname2.STUDY" to /etc/hosts would help just guessing, planning to put old ibm pentium (200Mhz) to do the firewall, router and printer server job martins -- Linux 2.6.15-rc2 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ 12:33:12 up 4:23, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
