Mozilla and SMB printing (it won't!)

Lenard Spencer · 10-17-2004, 09:11 PM

I have a little issue with Mozilla 1.7. My local printer is down (Deskjet 1000c, waiting on a power supply board) so I had to reconfigure my CUPS printing through SMB to another computer running Windoze. I can print from virtually every program -- except Mozilla. When I click on "print", the dialog box only gives a choice between one printer option "Postscript default" and printing to file. In "Properties", the print command it gives is:
"lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}"
When I click "print", the progress box pops up, quickly goes to 100%, but then hangs for about 10 seconds, with absolutely NOTHING getting sent to the remote printer. The only way I can print from Mozilla is to print to file, then use Konqueror or another PS viewer to print it that way.

Any suggestions? (Other than dump Mozilla?

) Thanks in advance.

haimeltjnfg · 10-17-2004, 10:17 PM

debian has a cupsys-bsd package, which has an lpr emulator for cups printers.

sachin_keluskar · 10-19-2004, 12:13 AM

hello

In "Properties", the print command it gives is:
"lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}"

instead of the above print command give the command as
"lpr -P printername"

Try this u will get a print. Or to avoid this step install Xprint so that when u click on print in the drop down menu instead of postscript/default u will get the whole printer list.

Lenard Spencer · 10-19-2004, 01:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by sachin_keluskar
hello

In "Properties", the print command it gives is:
"lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}"

instead of the above print command give the command as
"lpr -P printername"

Try this u will get a print. Or to avoid this step install Xprint so that when u click on print in the drop down menu instead of postscript/default u will get the whole printer list.

Still doesn't work. I guess I'll have to wait for the part for my local printer and see if that works...

eelriver · 10-19-2004, 01:49 AM

Mine works with

Code:

lpr-cups ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}

Lenard Spencer · 10-19-2004, 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by eelriver
Mine works with

Code:

lpr-cups ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}

I forgot all about that, thanks! Now the burned-out lightbulb comes on, I need to go back and see where lpr is linked to.

FOLLOWUP: Yep, they were all (lp, lpr, etc.) were all linked to use lprng, had to change them all to cups.