I updated a RH server to 6.4 and can't get remote printing to work

Doll, Margaret Ann margaret_doll at brown.edu
Sun Mar 30 21:30:00 UTC 2014


I have added cups-lpd 1.4 to the system.  I still have the same problem.

I haven't been able to find the complete list of packages that I need to
get remote printing to work using lpd.


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Doll, Margaret Ann <margaret_doll at brown.edu
> wrote:

> I was afraid that the clients could not access the printer server.  ssh
> works from the clients, but printing fails.
>
> The jobs start sending from the cient, but then stalls.  The mac client
> gets the message that the printer is in use.
> The job never prints.
>
> I have all the printers on the server set up to share.  I did notice that
> the new cups does not have cups-lpd.  We are using lpd from the clients to
> connect to the server.  The cold cups 1.1 had cups-lpd which ran.  cups 1.4
> on the new system does not have this component.
>
> How do I attach clients to be able to print from the server?
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Doll, Margaret Ann <
> margaret_doll at brown.edu> wrote:
>
>> Disabling selinux did not help.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Doll, Margaret Ann <
>> margaret_doll at brown.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> I forgot about the ??? selinix program.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Doll, Margaret Ann <
>>> margaret_doll at brown.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I copied over the printers.conf and cups.conf from the earlier RedHat
>>>> system.
>>>>
>>>> Printing works fine from the server.
>>>>
>>>> I have opened the iptables for port 613.  I have opened /etc/host.allow
>>>> for the remote systems.
>>>>
>>>> The remote systems get "printer is in use" when I try to send jobs
>>>> through the server.
>>>>
>>>> The error_log in /var/log/cups says
>>>>
>>>> Unable to restore printers.conf.
>>>>
>>>> localhost:631 works fine on the server.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>



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