[K12OSN] Printertrouble on K12LTSP4.2
Huck
dhuckaby at paasda.org
Tue Apr 5 16:09:39 UTC 2005
For me this was happening to a printer attached to a local thin client...
when a student would lockup or reboot the client...the printer would
cease to function....
in my case I use the 'http://ltspmachine:631/' and stop then start the
printer again...and everything starts working again.
--Huck
Eric Harrison wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Trond [ISO-8859-1] M�hlum wrote:
>
>> I have gotten into some printertrouble in K12LTSP4.2. I believe this
>> must be an FC3 thing, since it didn't happen in K12LTSP4.0.
>>
>> What happens is that my printers go into a "not ready" state after some
>> time. "Some time" can be an hour or three days, it doesn't really seem
>> to be an exact answer.
>
>
> 1) have you checked /var/log/cups/error_log ?
>
> 2) printing from Windows sometimes causes me problems if I don't
> enable raw printing. Try editing /etc/cups/mime.convs and
> /etc/cups/mime.types and uncomment the lines that enable the
> Raw filter.
>
> 3) I have heard reports that if a printer runs out of paper, after some
> period of time CUPS will disable that printer.
>
> -Eric
>
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