I am trying out Gnome 2.4 in slackware 9.1. In the past I would use the printer setup command in kde.

This time I used the web interface (http://localhost:631) to setup cups 1.1.19.
I used location = localhost and device uri = parallel:/dev/lp0 for an HP5L. I can successfully print a great looking test page.

My problem is that print commands from either root or user cannot open localhost

Here is the error output

bash-2.05b$ lpr -P HP5L Untitled1.ps
Status Information, attempt 1 of 3:
sending job 'jsh@Bear+798' to HP5L@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
and accepts connections from this host and from non-privileged (>1023) ports
Waiting 10 seconds before retry
Status Information, attempt 2 of 3:
sending job 'jsh@Bear+798' to HP5L@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
and accepts connections from this host and from non-privileged (>1023) ports
Waiting 10 seconds before retry
sending job 'jsh@Bear+798' to HP5L@localhost
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory
Make sure Untitled 1the remote host supports the LPD protocol
and accepts connections from this host and from non-privileged (>1023) ports

bash-2.05b# cd /etc/cups/ppd
bash-2.05b# ls
HP5L.ppd
bash-2.05b# lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: HP5L
Printer 'HP5L@localhost' - cannot open connection - No such file or directory
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol
Printer 'HP5L@localhost' - cannot open connection - No such file or directory
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol

I have tried googling and most hits were with printing either to Samba or Windows networks. I do not know alot about networking as I am using a personal desktop system although I think my dhcp connection via my cisco dsl modem has the modem assign a location to the desktop. Most Slackware documentation is for an apsfilter setup.

Any help appreciated

An answer to my problem from the linuxprinting site. Apparently in Slackware 9.1 the LPrng package prevents cups from writing a good printcap file. Make sure the LPRng package is removed and then remove your old cups printer in the cups administration web interface. Then reinstall from the web interface.