Steven Acres wrote:
Jeff Victor wrote:
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?
Hi Jeff,
I had a similiar issue yesterday, an HP 1200 laser printer which
worked via cups. Then it didn't. A note: this problem occurred
attempting to print _from_ a laptop running OSOL. This lappy is at
times on one subnet (which is explicitly allowed via cups.conf on the
server) and at times VPN connected (though it printed via this connex
previously). I haven't hunted down the logs for the server yet to
determine recent changes since it was more important to get the
printing running. Bottom line: I explicitly set the subnet for the
smallish set of clients needing to print via the cups.conf on the
server; restarted cups @ server and voila: printing! Until I can
narrow it down further (soon), this 'works for me' , hope it works for
you. Of course this is an internal subnet.
Steven,
Thanks for the response, but I don't think it will help. I don't have a
print server, so there's no place to set clients in cups.conf. I'm
hoping to avoid cups entirely.
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