On Saturday 15 December 2007, bill purvis wrote: > I've recently changed to Ubuntu to take advantage of the regular updates > facility they provide. Unfortunately, one of the recent updates has been > to CUPS, the printing susbsytem. As a result my printer queues seem to have > been renamed. My printer is attached to my server machine and is accessed > over the LAN. When I set up the printer on the server I established three > queues: a4, for regular prints on A4 paper, a3 for larger jobs on A3 paper > and photo for glossy photo printing. What seems to have happened is that > the a4 and a3 queues now have the machine address appended: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] for example. However, OO still has the original names > in mind and so when I try to print, I get a pop-up error message: "Error in > printing". It took me quite a while to figure out what caused this as there > was no further info and I hadn't realised the names had changed. Now that I > know what has happened the cure is simple, get OO to reload it's printer > configuration. How can I do this? I can't locate anything in > .openoffice2/user/config that relates to the printers. > One odd thing that I noticed is that the OOo print dialog includes a > printer that disappeared a long while back - long before I switched to > Ubuntu. This makes me believe that there is a user config file somewhere > that has this info in it. > > Many thanks if you can point me in the right direction. > > Bill Apologies - I have figured it out. It wasn't even related to Ubuntu updates. I have an old server machine, which is very unreliable and is normally switched off. I powered it up to access something on it and it still has printer queues enabled, though the printer has been transferred to the new machine. This caused an apparent conflict of names between the two servers so CUPS very thoughtfully decided to append the server address to distinguish them. When the server went off again, CUPS has left the modified name in place, presumably until the next restart. As for OpenOffice, I must have had a document open and it had retained the original names. Exiting from OpenOffice and re-starting it has picked up the fully-qualified names.
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