Jeff, I'm forwarding your email to printing discuss alias. I think you'll have a better chance troubleshooting this issue on that alias. I'm the writer for several printing projects, but I'm not a printing "expert".
I'm not sure about this issue, but, someone on the alias might be able to help you. It sounds like you tried bothy the OpenSolaris Print Manager and the Solaris Print Manager, and are attempting to get device discovery to detect a network printer? It's a little confusing if you're running 2009.06 because there are two print managers in the menu. Nita -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [sysadmin-discuss] Enabling network printer discovery Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:28:31 -0400 From: Jeff Victor <jeff.vic...@sun.com> To: sysadmin-discuss at opensolaris.org I am trying to print from OS 2009.06 to a network printer. I would use either manual configuration of the printer's IP address or automatic discovery, but can't figure out how to do either. The printer is an HP 7410. System -> Administration -> Print Manager seemed obvious, but manually configuring an IP address for a network printer didn't work for LPD or IPP methods. The icon associated with the local print queue said "Initializing" forever. Print Manager -> Edit -> Preferences has a tab "Network Printers" which seemed promising, though I don't know if the 7410 responds to SNMP. In any case, various attempts failed. I thought this might help me: http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolarisInfo200906/How+Network+Printer+Discovery+Works . It mentions a service network/device-discovery/printers:snmp but that service is in maintenance mode. Its log ends in [ Aug 24 19:17:51 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-network-discovery start snmp"). ] /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal --type=method_call /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/network_attached org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.NetworkDiscovery.EnablePrinterScanningViaSNMP int32:60 string:public string:0.0.0.0 Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.21" (uid=0 pid=20330 comm=") interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.NetworkDiscovery" member="EnablePrinterScanningViaSNMP" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=743 comm=")) [ Aug 24 19:17:51 Method "start" exited with status 1. ] which doesn't help me. Disabling and re-enabling it didn't help. Up until last week, this system (Tecra M9) was running S10 and was printing to the printer via CUPS. If OS 2009.06 cannot print to this printer natively, I will use CUPS again. I was just hoping that OS is ready for HP printers. Do I need CUPS? If not, how can I tell OS about my printer? Thanks for any help, --JeffV _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list sysadmin-discuss at opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/printing-discuss/attachments/20090827/83b4565c/attachment.html>
