Printing Probs with CUPS and Slack 9.1

Hey everyone,

Just installed Slack and love it. However, I am having a bit of a printing issue. I set up my printer through CUPS with ease, and when I go to localhost:631 and do a test page print, it goes great. However, when I try to print anything else, I get this in the command line:

bash-2.05b# lp Juliet_Maturity.sxw
Status Information, attempt 1 of 3:
sending job 'root@Flybox+456' to default@localhost
 connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
 cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol
Waiting 10 seconds before retry

I cannot print in open office, and I believe it's for the same reason!

Anyone know how to solve this? Thanks in advance!

Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol

try resolving this to use lp as it may be a problem, and you can try the lpr command for use with cups ...

Originally posted by DrOzz try resolving this to use lp as it may be a problem, and you can try the lpr command for use with cups ...

Well how do I do this is basically what I am asking.

Thanks!

Originally posted by Aman9090 Well how do I do this is basically what I am asking. Thanks!

It sounds like you're having the same problem I did. Here is what I just did.

First open up the OpenOffice.org Printer Administration.

Then click and highlight your printer.
Then click properties.

Then under Configure there should be a text box and a command there like lpr. Change that to lpr-cups, make sure that is highlighted, then click ok. Hopefully that will work for you, it did for me.

This problem happens because the other print services were installed together when you install Slackware.

You have to relink the symbolic link in /usr/bin as shown below:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 16 01:07 lp -> lp-cups*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 16 01:07 lpq -> lpq-cups*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 16 01:07 lpr -> lpr-cups*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 16 01:07 lprm -> lprm-cups*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 16 01:07 lpstat -> lpstat-cups*

You can rm /usr/bin/lp
ln -s /usr/bin/lp-cups /usr/bin/lp
as example.

I think I had the same experience, check this post.

Hope this might help.

Cheers, Leon.

I had this problem today with open office 1.1. I went into the printer administration area, and under generic printer added

kprinter --stdin

as the command to print, rather than lpr, works fine.