On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Mike Kershaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > I'm trying to figure out the packet sniffer now, but at one point I had tried removing the printer from CUPS and it was still happening. Would CUPS continue to check the status of a printer after it had been removed? -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jun 4 - Sqeak! and eToys Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) Aug 6 - Zenos Sep 3 - TBD
