Hi Peeps,

Just thought I'd share this little tit-bit. It has taken me two days on and off to sort this out - anyway this is what did the trick.

The printer is an Epson XP-400 series with wireless capability. There is no driver for this printer in the default install of CUPS. Epson provide drivers for this printer in the form of *rpm, *deb and src. I tried the rpm2tgz approach and although CUPS detects the printer and I could ping it, there was no output from it.

So I uninstalled that one and downloaded the src package. Following the instructions on the slack wiki I built a slackware package and installed that.

That still didn't work. something about "cups couldn't execute a filter". Anyway a bit of searching and it seems that the /usr/lib/cups/* MUST be owned by root. It turns out that the filter folder in /usr/lib/cups was set to my ownership!!. so a quick chown -R root.root /usr/lib/cups/filter and then back up to /usr/lib and the same command (more or less ) on the cups folder.

'Spose I could have done it all with one command in /usr/lib - but hey ho :-).

Anyway I restarted the cups deamon "/etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart" and pressed the print button. Blow me it worked!!!!!!!!

Why is your ID the owner of system files? Did you change the owner in the pass, or worst, are you in the root group?

I put myself in wheel so that I could shutdown the machine - maybe that's it eh?