I didn't explain the situation very well. There is one USB printer, and a second network printer plugged into a router/print server. I was trying to set up the network computer. Frankly foggy about how to go about that. Anyway there is a wizard, which ask for among other things, an ip address. I entered the ip address for the router, but I'm not sure if that was what the wizard was asking for or not. Anyway at this point it doesn’t want to let me set up or configure a printer at all
Apparently the cups server is not functioning. When I try to install printer I get a message that an error occurred while retrieving the list of available backends, and that the connection to the cups server failed. I did download the webmin program, but was then not able to connect to the localhost I have noticed that on the laptop, which is also connected to the same router, that my network places now lists mdkgroup and samba server. Through out the printer installation window has frozen. Appreciate any suggestions. Thanks dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of YankDownUnder Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [newbie] 2006 86 64 print server configuration G'Day, dandimmitt! A combination of 1's and 0's created the following on Wednesday 21 September 2005 10:45 am: > Hi > > I tried to set up a print server, and seem to have a problem. > > I entered an I p address in the wizard, which may have been the wrong > value. > > Now the system doesn’t recognize the usb printer plugged into the computer > box. > > When I open the printer configuration utility, it freezes up. > > Is there a way to reset the values through the console? > > > > This is 2006rc2 x86-64. There were some changes made to the way the > printer si set up, but this may have as much to do with > > having screwy input. > > > > Thanks > > dan Er...if the printer is a USB printer, why would you enter an IP address for it? Meanwhile, just remove the printer from your system completely - and unplug it. Reboot without the printer connected and then power down again. Plug in the printer. Power on the system again. This SHOULD find the printer properly and allow for you to configure it again. Another means by which to do it is to use Webmin (if you don't have it installed, just open a term an - as root - type: urpmi webmin => once that is done you can access Webmin by opening your browser and pointing it to: https://localhost:10000/ => then login, go to HARDWARE => printers => remove the printer or add the printer) -- -- YankDownUnder aka stephen kuhn #mandriva channel op - irc.freenode.net Mandriva Official IRC Support YankDownUnder -at- Mandriva -dot- org ----------------------------------------------- Running Mandriva LE2005-2.6.11-12mdk Registered Linux User # 267497 ----------------------------------------------- === ALL USERS PLEASE NOTE ======================== Compiler optimizations have been made to macro expand LET into a WITHOUT- INTERRUPTS special form so that it can PUSH things into a stack in the LET-OPTIMIZATION area, SETQ the variables and then POP them back when it's done. Don't worry about this unless you use multiprocessing. Note that LET *could* have been defined by: (LET ((LET '`(LET ((LET ',LET)) ,LET))) `(LET ((LET ',LET)) ,LET)) This is believed to speed up execution by as much as a factor of 1.01 or 3.50 depending on whether you believe our friendly marketing representatives. This code was written by a new programmer here (we snatched him away from Itty Bitti Machines where he was writing COUGHBOL code) so to give him confidence we trusted his vows of "it works pretty well" and installed it. ------------------------------------------------ ** Real Byte Computers ** Verified Virus Free ** ------------------------------------------------ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.3/107 - Release Date: 9/20/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.3/107 - Release Date: 9/20/2005
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