On Jun 1, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Jones, Russell wrote:

I have a network printer that I have installed through the cups web/
gui
interface. I am able to print a test page from the gui but I am not
able
to print from the command line. This is what I get:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# lpr test.print
Status Information, attempt 1 of 3:
sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
 cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol

Any suggestions?

Do you have CUPS set up to do lpd emulation on port 515 (I think)?

If not, well, you can't print because nothing's listening to the lpd
port.  Cups by default uses IPP, which is 631, I think.

Adam

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