On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 02:32:01PM -0400, John Mort wrote: > Yesterday my company received a new printer. The printer comes with a web > interface that lets it easily be installed on windows clients, however > certain applications didn't appear to like the printer so I figured I'd try > installing it on the CUPS server and installing it on the clients that way. > After I added the printer to CUPS, every two minutes the printer receives a > print job from users "Unknown", and prints out the following: > > POST / HTTP/1.1 > Content-Length: 288 > Content-Type: application/ipp > Host: 192.168.111.4 (this is the printers IP) > User-Agent: CUPS/1.3.7 > Expect: 100-continue > > Then what appears to be two lines of text printed over top each other. I > tried disabling ipp on the printer, hoping this would make it ignore the > strange print requests, yet they still keep coming. The job log in CUPS > doesn't show anything like this. I'm not sure what to do. Has anyone had a > problem like this before?
Sounds like the printer is interpreting a status query as a print command? Put a packet sniffer on the cups box and grab the frame it sends and see what the query contains? -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam. I have a catapult. Give me all your money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head
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