Re: Connecting to printer connected to another computer.

2012-06-30 Thread Michael Havens
The other computer is ubuntu. As to the log I am unsure which one you want. Probably /var/log/cups but I am unsure. This is off of the wireless computer: ~$ more /var/log/cups/access_log localhost - - [30/Jun/2012:16:10:54 -0700] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 185 Renew-Subsc ription successful-ok localhos

Re: Connecting to printer connected to another computer.

2012-06-30 Thread Lisa Kachold
Okay, so this is a printer shared through another computer, right? You can see the printer, but it says it's not plugged in. What is the other computer? Can you see logs from the other computer of access attempts. What is it whining about? On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Michael Havens wrote:

Re: Connecting to printer connected to another computer.

2012-06-30 Thread Lisa Kachold
It says "Unplugged or turned off". That means basically it's "unplugged or turned off". Check the cabling. On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > # ps -ef| grep cups > root 938 1 0 15:11 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -F > root 3379 3313 0 16:58 pts/1

Re: Connecting to printer connected to another computer.

2012-06-30 Thread Michael Havens
# ps -ef| grep cups root 938 1 0 15:11 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -F root 3379 3313 0 16:58 pts/100:00:00 grep --colour=auto cups # netstat -antp | grep 631 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 938/cupsd tcp6 0 0 ::

Re: Connecting to printer connected to another computer.

2012-06-30 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Michael, On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > Here's whats happening: I have a printer connected to the desktop in my > office. That prints fine all is good. I have a laptop that used to > print to the printer but ever since the hard driv e crashed and > I re-installed

Re: lubuntu 'find'

2012-06-30 Thread Lisa Kachold
Hi Betty, To use the mlocate package in Kubutun, you can just enter: # locate $filepart |more or for binaries in your $PATH, # which $filename Of course if you are not in a su or root session, you will only search your own $PATH. If your locate database has not been updated (by cron - setup w

Connecting to printer connected to another computer.

2012-06-30 Thread Michael Havens
Here's whats happening: I have a printer connected to the desktop in my office. That prints fine all is good. I have a laptop that used to print to the printer but ever since the hard drive crashed and I re-installed the OS it hasn't. I go to cups and go through the printer-discovery process (a

Re: lubuntu 'find'

2012-06-30 Thread Michael Havens
I have an 'mlocate.db' but not slocate. Is that the same thing? Or else does this mean I have to do it the way I've been doing it manually? On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM, betty > wrote: > [see if you have] /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db

Re: lubuntu 'find'

2012-06-30 Thread betty
uhh, i didn't get that, that seemed to search in man pages or something but i did try this find ~ -name *sound* and that works, i was just trying to find the *easier, read; lazy way*, to find a file where you just knew the name or part of the name but didn't remember which folder it was in. TH

Re: lubuntu 'find'

2012-06-30 Thread Matt Graham
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM, betty wrote: >> I am using l-ubuntu 12.04 with the pcMan manager and i can't for the life >> of me find the way to 'find' a file or something with part of a file name >> in it. it is driving me crazy. What am i missing??? From: Michael Havens > try apropos par

Re: lubuntu 'find'

2012-06-30 Thread Michael Havens
or am I mistaken in what you want to do? (don't forget that I AM the village idiot) On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > tr y > > apropos part-of-file-name > > > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM, betty wrote: > >> I am using l-ubuntu 12.04 with the pcMan manager and i ca

Re: lubuntu 'find'

2012-06-30 Thread Michael Havens
tr y apropos part-of-file-name On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:26 PM, betty wrote: > I am using l-ubuntu 12.04 with the pcMan manager and i can't for the life > of me find the way to 'find' a file or something with part of a file name > in it. it is driving me crazy. What am i missing??? > than

lubuntu 'find'

2012-06-30 Thread betty
I am using l-ubuntu 12.04 with the pcMan manager and i can't for the life of me find the way to 'find' a file or something with part of a file name in it. it is driving me crazy. What am i missing??? thanks -- betty i. www.webcanine.com information for people who care for dogs. --