[K12OSN]Centos+USB+local printer... and sharing it

[Rob Owens]

mumbler9 wrote:
> Here's the current stage... the dhcpd.conf file is working, it is 
> assigning it an IP (and it is PCE boot)
> 
>     host ws099 {
>     hardware ethernet 00:30:18:a6:97:a9;
>     fixed-address 192.168.0.99;
>     filename      "/lts/pxe/pxelinux.0";
>     }
> 
> In lts.conf I have the terminal stated like this:
> 
> [00:30:18:a6:97:a9]
> PRINTER_0_DEVICE        =/dev/usb/lp0
> PRINTER_0_TYPE          = U
> MODULE_01          = usblp
> 
I'm pretty sure you don't need to specify MODULE_01 if you're using LTSP 
4.2 (included in K12LTSP 5.0EL).  I don't think it hurts anything, but 
you might want to take it out and see what happens.  Everything else 
looks good.

> In CUPS I added it like this, choosing HP and Laserjet 1200:
> 
> socket://192.168.0.99:9100
> 
> CUPS shows it as started, and it looks all happy:
> 
> Jun 12 00:00:11 ws099 lp_server: Started with: -n 9100 -w -d /dev/usb/lp0
> Jun 12 00:00:11 ws099 last message repeated 8 times
> Jun 12 00:00:11 ws099 init: Id "p0" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 
> minutes
> Jun 12 00:02:08 bofh2 kernel: ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
> Jun 12 00:05:12 ws099 lp_server: Started with: -n 9100 -w -d /dev/usb/lp0
> Jun 12 00:05:32 ws099 ltspinfod: Connection from 192.168.0.254 port 40283
> Jun 12 00:06:31 ws099 ltspinfod: Connection from 192.168.0.254 port 40319
> Jun 12 00:12:38 ws099 lp_server: Started with: -n 9100 -w -d /dev/usb/lp0
> 
> CUPS gives an error of:
> "/usr/lib/cups/backend/socket failed"
> 
> and the printer goes into:
> Printer State: stopped, accepting jobs, published.
> 
> While it is in this stopped state, lpstat -l -a shows this:
> lpstat -l -a
> HP accepting requests since Thu 12 Jun 2008 12:13:54 AM CDT
> 
I'm using local printers in K12LTSP 5.0EL and my configuration is the 
same as yours except that I use etherboot instead of PXE, and I assigned 
my printer using the hostname (which I have a DNS record for) instead of 
IP address.  But the way you're doing it looks like it should work.

-Rob
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