I have a HP Colour Laserjet 2600n with a built in print server which my Mepis
6.5 PC can connect and prints to without a problem

The same PC dual boots Mepis 7 (a fresh install of V7 Final) but it can not
see the printer (via KDE Printer config) or print to the printer on the
network. It can ping the IP address of the printer without a problem. I have
checked and double checked the driver and setting are the same as those in
6.5. I tried HPLip Toolbox but that made a bigger mess of setting the printer
up (as it did when I tried it in 6.5). I set the printer up using KDEPrinter
config

When I tried to setup this printer in mepis 6.5 I tried using the cups admin
setup this also failed. But I have not tried it yet on version 7

I checked the cups log and found the following entry:

25/12/07 22:10:35 PID 30150 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with
status 1!
25/12/07 22:13:20 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer: Unauthorized
25/12/07 22:13:32 PID 30896 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with
status 1!
25/12/07 22:17:24 cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found!
25/12/07 22:17:24 cupsdAuthorize: Local authentication certificate not found!

The cupsdAuthorize line is repeated 100's of time

Any suggestions

Tim

The hplip project will probably supply what you need. You might want to look if you have it already. After installation, use "sudo /path/to/makeuri <printers IP>" to generate a URI to use for the printer. Then configure the printer in the cups interface.
On some systems, entering root and the root password when the requester comes up (using the cups web interface) won't work. If that is the case, use the lppasswd program to create a user/password combo to use instead. This was the case when I used SuSE 10.0. I simply used my own username and passwd.

http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/installtree.html

The CLJ 2600 is currently unsupported by HPLIP:

http://hplip.sourceforge.net/support...supported.html

That's why it will not properly setup in HPLIP (using hp-setup or whatever).

The HP Colorlaser 2605n is listed as a postscript printer. Is your printer a postscript printer? If so, then you could configure it generically.