This is a shot in the dark, but if it works, (I hope) then cool.
What I did was to bring up kups as root, the
cups daemon configger, check out the settings
in this if you know what they should be for the
printer that is on the system you're using.
Hope it works.
Vic
On Sunday 28 January 2001 04:18 pm, so spoke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I tried this but alas it did not work. I really do like using linux but it
> is very annoying to have to reboot into windows in order to print. does
> anyone have a suggestion? I will try almost anything right now
>
> tim
>
> ps. TFTD(thought for the day): I couldn't fix your brakes so I made your
> horn louder
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I had a similiar problem.
> >
> > After uninstalling the default CUPS drivers and re-installing the updated
> > drivers everything worked fine.
> >
> > Merely "upgrading" the existing RPM's did not work though.
> >
> > It was not until I performed an uninstall then re-install that things
> > started working.
> >
> > Curiously this also fixed my Samba printing problem as well.
> >
> > -JMS
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 8:46 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] cannot get cups to work
> >
> >
> > When I first installed LM 7.2 my printer worked just fine, then one day I
> > tried to print and I got the error that it couldn't reach the cups
> > server. Since then I have tried reinstalling cups with many different
> > updates but I have still had no luck. every time I reinstall I go to
> > printerdrake and it hangs on "reading driver database". the web interface
> > (http://localhost:631) also does not work.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated
> >
> > tim
>
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