On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 13:05:50 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
>I now understand what is preventing printing from my >server/workstation, but not why or where. > > On my laptop I defined the HP LaserJet 5 with connection >socket://lj5:9100. I can send jobs to the printer from this host. > >On my desktop (the server/workstation), the same printer is defined with >the same connection, but attempts to print (at least from the command >line which lets me see the error messages) fail because it cannot >connect to localhost. 'localhost' is not part of the connection nor is >it in any /etc/cups/*.conf file. I've no idea where cups is picking >that up, but it's not been an issue before and is obviously not an >issue when printing from the laptop. I haven't been paying attention to this thread. Did you say the printer was on the ethernet? If not, how is it physically connected? I have a LJ4+ with ethernet. To connect to it (Gnome desktop) I just open System > Administration > Printing, right click on the icon for it and select Properties. In the Properties dialog box the connection is displayed with a "Change" button next to it. Clicking on the Change button brings up another dialog box where I can tell CUPS to search for it. As long as it is turned on CUPS finds it and automatically connects to it by "socket://192.168.0.15:9100." CUPS came up with that address so I didn't have to figure out anything. I did the same thing for my several other networked printers and they always just work. When you defined "socket://lj5:9100," how did you do it? Did you get that address by asking CUPS to find the printer? Or did you somehow create "lj5" yourself and define it manually? A long time ago I had printers connected via LPT1 on individual computers. To print to a printer that was connected to a different computer, that other computer had to have the printer shared so other computers could print to it through the computer it was attached to. I'm far from a CUPS expert, but I have learned a lot about CUPS in the school of "poke at it until it works." Swearing also helps. But it has to be genuine blue-air swearing. If you're just muttering under your breath CUPS will continue to be a brat. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
