Alan; Check the post I've just sent to the group. It may help.
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
>
>> HEEELLLLPPP!!!!!!
>>
>> I am trying in vain to print from SO5.2, and feel I am
>> slowly going mad.
>>
>> I have installe the printer when I installed Mandrake 7.2;
>> the test-page prints, and I print wothout problem from
>> KWord or KSpread. The printer as installed is listed in
>> /etc/cups/printers.conf
>>
>> If I open http://localhost:631/ and go to the Manage
>> Printer page, it tells me there are no printers installed.
>> If I install one, it is listed in /etc/cups/printers.conf,
>> but at the end of the configuration I still have no printer
>> installed as far as the Manage Printers page is concerned.
>>
>> If I open Kups from the console, the status bar of Kups
>> keeps telling me Cannot connect to CUPS server; check your
>> options. If I add one, it is listed in
>> /etc/cups/printers.conf, but at the end of the
>> configuration I still have no printer installed as far as
>> Kups is concerned.In the course of the installation, Kups
>> repeatedly tells me I have no printer connected to // port
>> #1
>>
>> qtcups does not see any of the printers listed in
>> /etc/cups/printers.conf
>>
>> xpp gives me short shrift, with the terse warning "No
>> printer found, aborting"
>>
>> Only the Printer Configuration in DraxConf "sees" the
>> installed printers, all the other config progs fail to see
>> them.
>>
>> I have checked in the DraxConf startup services, and both
>> cups and lpr are checked.
>>
>> Any ideas ?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Desperate, on the shores of the Paraguay River.
>
>
> Renaud....after installing SO as root there should've been a
> menu selection in K-menu (under office) called 'staroffice
> setup' that you used to install SO as a user. Along with
> that menu selection there should also be 2 more, 'staroffice'
> (to execute staroffice) and 'staroffice printer setup' (to
> setup printers for staroffice). You need to use the
> 'staroffice printer setup' menu selection to setup a default
> printer for star office.
> --
> Alan
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