[Solved - of sorts] CUPS printing problems

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Apr 23 23:12:30 UTC 2006


On Sunday 23 April 2006 16:31, Jeff Vian wrote:
>On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 05:24 -0700, Rickey Moore wrote:
>> Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>         On Saturday 22 April 2006 03:55, Jeff Vian wrote:
>>         > I can confirm that I was forced to make changes in
>>
>>         cupsd.conf by hand to
>>
>>         > allow any thing but the localhost to print to my printers
>>         > by
>>
>>         cups.
>>
>>         > Once I set the browse option to allow the other machines
>>         > to
>>
>>         see the
>>
>>         > printers, and then set the Allow From option to allow the
>>
>>         local network
>>
>>         > to connect I am able to print from other machines on my
>>
>>         local network.
>>
>>         > It seems the cups web interface only is designed to
>>
>>         configure local
>>
>>         > printing and has no options to set things to allow
>>         > anything
>>
>>         else on the
>>
>>         > LAN to use the printer.
>>         >
>>         > This is definitely something that needs to be improved to
>>
>>         allow new or
>>
>>         > non-technical users to configure printers for network use,
>>
>>         not just on
>>
>>         > the localhost.
>>
>>         Intrigued by this thread, since I use networked printing all
>>         the time, I tried
>>         to use the cups interface on this box to add another
>>         configuration of my
>>         printer. It appeared to complete, telling me that it had
>> added the printer.
>>         Checking on the server, I found that no new printer had been
>>         added there.
>>         Wondering if it had merely set up a local configuration to
>> be piped through,
>>         I decided to try a test print of a photo. The new printer
>>         didn't show up on
>>         the printer list. Then I tried to print a test page, and got
>>         the message
>>         that the target printer doesn't exist.
>> Way back in 2000, when I worked at RH, I had to come in from the
>> cold and admit that I couldn't get my GF's printer to work at all.
>> Toxic SHAME!! I brought the entire system to work, and no one else
>> could get it to work, and they were the REAL experts!! I finally rpm
>> -e'd samba. God only knows why or how that came to me to do so...
>> and then the printer worked. I had beat myself up for over a -year-,
>> and had come to the conclusion that there was something fundementaly
>> wrong with me / linux / my system and it was Samba, all along.
>>
>> So, you might wish to check out your printer running locally first,
>> then jump into the networking end. Your message indicates it works
>> OK on localhost. That's good. Beat on your samba settings, that's
>> most likely where your permission problem lies.  I still shudder to
>> think about the hell I went through with emails and postings all
>> over the place just to locally print a page. <shudders> Ric
>
>Great idea and I certainly would consider it if I was using samba.
>However, none of my machines have ever had samba enabled/configured. 
> My network is pure Linux so the samba realm is not needed.
>
And I've been using Samba for about 7 years, but never as a printer 
server, none, nada.  Cups and ipp have worked for all printer sharing 
and nearly always have.  No local configuration required other than to 
look at localhost:631, wait for it to find all the servers printers and 
quit.  From that point on, anything I print brings up a requester to 
check if I want to use the default printer, I click ok, and a wee bit 
later I have inky paper on the output tray.  And we're being told that 
should be all thats required if the printer is attached to a machine on 
the same subnet.

So my advice is not to get rid of samba, but to take any and all 
references to the printers out of /etc/samba/smb.conf, on all machines, 
then restart samba and see if that helps.
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>> ...the Sin of Stupidity.
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