Help Setup Cups
 

Trying to run in XFCE...
When I go to localhost:631 and add Canon i550 printer it installs successfully using canon bjc7100, which I read somehwere would work for this printer. When I run test print it starts my printer advancing paper into print postition and stops there:
Parallel_Port_1 "Printing page 1, 18%"

Printer settings in Xfce show Cups Xprint ver 4.41 highlighted and
BSD-LPR as options.
Shilo's post 'How I do it all' suggests removing LPR to avoid conflicts. How do I remove LPR?

I know: /usr/lib/cups/driver--is> empty

So I downloaded guidepixus550icups-2.2tar.gz, how do I open it to read? There is also a list of canon at: ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/drivers

What do I have to do to install an .rpm if my driver is not in tar.gz
File: bjfilterpixus550i-2.2-2.i386.rpm
Where do I install printer driver to?

My printer is still blinking but its not printing. Thanks

Either just install it using rpm (Slackware does come with it, it's in /ap, though usually installed unless you say otherwise) or use rpm2tgz (which may or may not be installed and can be found in /a if it isn't) to convert it to a .tgz and install that.

This is your printer is it not ?:
http://openprinting.org/show_printer...num=Canon-i550

Try using the recommended CUPS BJC8200 driver or gutenprint.

BJC 8200 yielded similar results to that with BJC7100: Parallel_Port_1 "Printing page 1, 1%" The paper feed starts and actual printing never occurs as did before. I am reading thru 'Printing background and tutorial' make sure my setup is correct before I actually install anything. Thanks much and will let you know the final results if I can get the printer working.

rpm -ihv --nodeps bjfilterpixus550i-2.2-2.i386.rpm

Need installing tar.gz instructions please
 

Found these 3 files for i550:
bjfilter-2.2-1.tar.gz
bjcups-2.2-1.tar.gz - ppd file?
bjcupsmon-2.2-1.tar.gz
Do all three of these files get installed? Need instructions on howto install the above...

Do I have to designate the directories to install to? What directories do I install the above packages? Are these source files?

Ok, tried to install bjcups-2.2-1.tar.gz, I unpacked it in a folder in my /home/user dirctory,followed these vague install directions:To build and install bjcups and pstocanonbj:
1) Building misc libraries.
cd libs
make
make install
cd ..
2) Building "bjcups" and "pstocanonbj".
make
make install .
Now I have a bunch of folders in: ../bjcups-2.2-1 -What do I do now? BTW my printer just feeds a sheet of paper through my printer every time I start Slack or shut it down??? Thanks

I have no idea what the problem is, but please stop creating new threads for what's essentially the same problem.

What type of packages are these and which install process should I use?
 

Problem is that I had been trying to find out what type of install packages
the following are for 3days and thought perhaps my title was not descriptive enough:

bjfilter-2.2-1.tar.gz
bjcups-2.2-1.tar.gz - ppd file?
bjcupsmon-2.2-1.tar.gz

How do I install them, Do I use kernel compiling instructions? Or do I use
package install instructions? Are these an "autoconfig" type tarball, or is it a slackware package?

In one of the posts adviced to read Slackware12 Chapter18 and in another post jschiwal' most helpfully, suggested I run "make" as user and "sudo make install", and run "make clean" 1st if I tried installing unsuccessfully before. Thanks

ppd file is a postscript printer driver. I use hp ppd driver to print my documents.
If I run:
I find those in /usr/share/cups/model

There should be some documentation included with those canon drivers. If not, check:
http://127.0.0.1:631/documentation.html Maybe you'll find smth.

EDIT: Now I know what the other file is. If you printer does not support ppd (but, apparently it does), cups can use filter to send postscript data stream through it (so even non-postscript printers can print postscript data). bjcupsmon is obviously some sort of monitor. You need to check docs for this.

Alien Hominid, the link: http://127.0.0.1:631/documentation.html doesn't work. Documentation files in bjcups provides little vague install information regarding install process and dependencies info. But what I need is basic install instructions un tar, install vs. configure, what do I configure and whether or not I have to manually put files,folders in a specific directory? Do i have to use source code and why can't I just use install or upgrade? Too many things I don't know to just untar these packages.

Is cups actually running and is it started at start (it should be executable)?

You can't actually install and upgrade because tar.gz is an archive an not a Slackware package (tgz). Btw, not all tgz archives are Slackware packages.

Alien_Hominid bellow is what i got when I entered the code you suggested.
I don't know what the above output signifies.

The following I found in: /usr/share/cups/model/C
pcl-550.ppd.gz
bjc-7100.ppd.gz
bjc-8200.ppd.gz
Is pcl-550.ppd.gz related to canon i550?

Do I have to remove lprng because it may be causing a conflict? If so how do I remove it?

I'm trying to understand what you've done but it's hard.

guidepixus550icups-2.2tar.gz - is a guide, how to make your printer working in linux.

To extract it from terminal use:
or use any archiver frontend.

The problem that it is Japanese and I can't read the Japanese. I checked canon USA and Europe sites, but in the USA site I can't find i550 at all, in Europe I can't find a link to linux driver.

I'll download other files, which you mentioned and check, what do they really do.


The above output signifies that cups is running at startup, because:
shows that cups is executable (has x flags). When you want to make some service (in /etc/rc.d/) executable, you need to chmod +x service_name, to disable the service startup, you need to chmod -x. ls -l lists files and their permissions.

Because cups is running, you should be able to connect to localhost:631 and read the documentation.

Did you read there:

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/O...SDocumentation


Btw, i550 and pixus550i are the same printers or not?

Yes, actually I think they are:
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/co...2&modelid=8046
http://cweb.canon.jp/e-support/qasea...226060387.html

Alien_Hominid ;),
I too used the code u mentioned to look at the guidepixus550icups-2.2tar.gz, I don't read Japanese either,lolol.
It was recommended I use the bjc-7100 or 8200 and I had gone to localhost:631 where I added my printer tried the recommended alternatives but print test only made printer start paper feed.
Recently I found bjc-7100.ppd.gz; bjc-8200.ppd.gz; and pcl-550.ppd.gz in /usr/share/cups/model/C I did not have /C folder there before.

For these files to work do they have to be gunzip?

Should I put the newly generated canonpixus550i.ppd in this directory or do I have to do something with Makefile first?

Then at slackware startup or shutdown the paper would feed through printer thats it.

I followed some posts to the Japanese and the European sites, US Canon doesn't support linux to my surprise. Forum posts led me to Pixma550i files. Someone said Drivers were named Pixma in Japan but they work for the Canon i550.

So I Checked your link and whether this sounds stupid or not it looks like blue prints to building a printer-> lol OOps that was the first link you posted,

Second link you posted was my starting point before I downloaded the Pixma550i packages. I printed out the sites instructions and been trying to apply them to pixus-.ppd folder.

According to OpenPrinting I should put .ppd in /usr/share/cups/model/... but I am afraid to because I don't know if I have to perform some action in the generated pixus- bjc folders in /home directory.

Guess I will untar all the other packages and see if I can find documentation regarding where the folders are supposed to go.

Which link is about blueprints? Filter is not a part of hardware, but a part of software in this case.

There are two good sources: localhost:631, then help and reading how to configure cups and that link to openprinting.

I would try to copy that ppd file into model and then use cups web interface to configure that printer. At anytime, you can remove it and reconfigure your printer again.

Because pixus550i and i550 are the same ones (probably), I can see that you can use about 5 different drivers with it:
http://www.openprinting.org/show_pri...non-_pixus550i (those mentioned plus bjc8200 one). Because these bjc do not work somehow, you need to find out what type of drivers are others. That's why I gave you a link which explains all available drivers to cups.

Alien_Hominid, Understand filter is software. The link I found confusing is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_...stem#Scheduler ; because referrences to gimp, ghostscript, printer drivers all of which seem to be in software already installed in slackware12, so maybe I have software but its not installed? Ok, I will go back to localhost:631 and keep reading help, believe me I have a folder full of bookmarked linux printer sites including ones you gave me.

Question, in /usr/share/cups/model/c do the .ppd.gz files have to be gunzip? Thank you

PPD file's installation is explained in the openprinting (linux-foundation) link.
Wikipedia link was to show that the cups has a web server, which you can connect to and read documentation.

Tobyl, I am taking you up on that printer offer..
.ppd files are all gzip and adding pixma550i.ppd file did nothing in /usr/share/cups/model/C...directory where documentation describes it belongs.
Since, I have started from scratch with a fresh install that starts cups during boot as suggested.
How do I setup log to track errors? There must be a printer log that shows what is wrong, like when you startx and there is something wrong in xorg.conf?
Tobyl (I tried runlevel4 but did not like not being able to logout of GUI back into command line. Messed broke the setup installing sound. Reinstalled and went back to run level 3. Not sure I like Lilo. Sure don't like that red square login box. My first install gave me dark blue letters against a black background?? This time its back to normal white on black)..lol

Nightsky,

First I must warn you that I don't have a canon printer, nor am I an expert in printing, so I can't be sure of success, but we can give it a shot.

First thing, please confirm if you are using Slackware 10.2 or 12.0 as I got the idea you were using 12.0 but under your name it says 10.2. It makes a difference, because things have changed a bit since 10.2.

I think the .ppd file goes in /etc/cups/ppd. I certainly find my .ppd file there. (in my case an old epson).
I have in /usr/share/cups/model/ some .ppd files, and a directory gutenprint/5.0/ which contains a lot of *.ppd.gz files, so I am hazarding a guess that the printer driver install process extracts the appropriate driver from here (if it exists) and puts it in /etc/cups/ppd. So take a look in those places and tell me what you have...

Anyway I think gutenprint is the best option to start with.

Look in /var/log/cups for error logs.

Another thing, do you use a USB or parallel cable, and are you in a position to try the other option? I think your printer supports both types. USB is supposed to be faster, but I use parallel, and find it more reliable.

When it feeds the paper a bit and then stops, it sounds to me like there is a problem with bi-directional communication. If you have a parallel cable, make sure you have the right bios settings for the parallel port. i know you said it works in windows, but the windows driver may work differently.

I have the red box in lilo. Its not pretty I agree, but I don't spend a lot of time looking at it. That is probably a topic of its own so I wont go into that right now.

tobyl

You can easily change lilo boot image: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...screen-603370/

There is also lilo-splash, like grub-splash but for lilo.

Hi Tobyl, Alien_hominid, thought I had changed my profile, Slackware12, Xfce4.4.1 -Canoni550, standard parallel connection-thinking of upgrading with bug fix ver 4.4.2 by rworkman, just installed his open office slackpkg 2.3.1 no problem.

At boot up, canoni550 is detected on parport0 I believe, lines scroll by so fast, u can lose your eyeballs trying to read them.
What does parport0 correspond to in slackware12? lol

This is what I did, at localhost:631 added printer use the suggested bjc8200,
in the .ppd space I put the path to it corresponding .gz file. Also added user.

This is what Cups Printer Page looks like:
Make and Model: CANON BJC 8200 - CUPS+Gimp-Print v4.2.7

Looked at ErrorLog on cups page: Listening to 127.0.0.1:631 on fd 0...
I [08/Dec/2007:11:35:21 -0600] Listening to /var/run/cups/cups.sock on fd 2...
E [08/Dec/2007:11:35:21 -0600] Unable to set ACLs on root certificate "/var/run/cups/certs/0" - Operation not supported

Odd fd0 and fd2 ??? aren't those floppy designations? I do have 2 floppy drives.
What is ACLs ?
What are Classes?

Hi Nightsky,

You are right fd0 is usually a floppy drive, but in this case fd means file descriptor.

lpt1

this is Access Control List
I think "Unable to set ACLs on root certificate" occurs when the printer is not detected, (eg not turned on)
Dont worry about this for now.

I'm not too sure about this, but I have no classes set and it doesn't stop me printing, I think it doesn't matter if you only have a local printer. Lets leave that for now as well.

please go to localhost:631 and delete any printers

then go here and follow instructions

http://localhost:631/help/overview.html

edit: I think bjc7100 is the driver to go for, but it sure is confusing!

if that still doesn't work, read on...

I *think* this is wrong. If you can, choose your printer from the model selector and let cups locate the PPD file.
Note that it is an either/or option on this page.
If that doesn't work, then you need to select a ppd file without the .gz extension. I am surprised if cups doesn't sort this out for you, but you can do it yourself...copy the file somewhere (in case you need it again),then as root

gunzip filename.ppd.gz
chmod 644 filename.ppd

that should extract it to the uncompressed .ppd file, and the chmod will make sure it is readable to all.
then put your path to the .ppd file

please answer my question about the bios settings. You may have to fish around in the bios, but the parallel port settings are in there... select ECP if it is available or tell me what options there are....

I am using slackware current. The printing stuff is changed from the stock 12.0. Gimp-print has had a name change to gutenprint. If we have no joy with your current set up, we have the option to upgrade to gutenprint, but we will exhaust the options on your existing system first.

tobyl

Tobyl,
I did got into BIOS Setting and changed parallel port to ECP. What else do I need to know about BIOS settings for linux?
Canon shows up as an option in cups, just not my printer, so I tried 7100, Test Print puts out a black line along the bottom or top of page.

Nightsky,

The xfce bugfix is undoubtedly worthwhile, but I don't think it will impact on the printing issue. I believe it is a security fix relating to the terminal.

As for bios settings, it is usually best to leave well alone unless there is a problem to fix. ECP is the best setting for parallel printers, and should work ok on your printer. It makes use of DMA, which is faster, and works in linux. Of course I may be proved wrong...

tobyl

edit: in current, cups is upgraded to a newer version, and gimp-print is upgraded (and renamed to gutenprint), but we should stick to the stock versions for slack 12.0 until we have exhausted all the other options. It would not be irreversible to try out however, I think four packages are involved,
cups-1.3.4-i486-1.tgz
ghostscript-8.61-i486-1.tgz
gutenprint-5.0.1-i486-2.tgz
foomatic-filters-3.0_20070919-i486-1.tgz

I will show you what to do if we come to that...

Tobyl, Printer still not working. Think I found what is throwing off the printer config. I confused "Network Settings" as describe by
Can you help me get this info right? Thanks

Nightsky,

Was there an error message that led you to this line of enquiry?

From your cups log: Listening to 127.0.0.1:631

so there shouldn't be a network issue for a local printer

NASCI.gateway.2wire confuses me though. Is that your hostname?

what have you got in the files
/etc/hosts
/etc/HOSTNAME

(hope we aren't barking up the wrong tree here)

tobyl.

hi tobyl, (sorry for the delayed response, i had been sick, back to normal now). During boot there is a message regarding "inability to connect or find a working host" and since my printer seems to connect on some level, doesn't print just feeds paper thru, I thought "incorrect Host and Domain Name" could cause the printer to fail "Print Test".
You can see my confusion with Machine Name (Host) and Domain Name for machine and broadband server info.
Machine name is Host NASCI, so what would be the domain name, the WorkGroup Name? Also broadband server: sbcglobal merged with att; Today 'Tech Support' clarified my server would be Sbcglobal.net regardless of the att appended email configuration and 2wire gateway modem configuration usage of att.
I deleted printer from localhost:631 and tried to uncomment a couple of lines in the /etc/rc.d/rc.modules:
### PC parallel port support ### (frm: http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/sdeg/printers.htm )
To see if Printer could be probed for more readily during boot. No luck, knowing the port location of printer is not helping me to get the printer to print. So I am researching Printer Drivers and posability of building a slackware driver package from the Pixus550i tar.gz packages I previously downloaded. I have an old edition of Slackware Unleashed and whatever else I find online. Experimenting w\Apsfilter from Slackware Tips&Tricks: http://members.cox.net/laitcg/new/intro.shtml
Also considering trying LPD since I found some old instructions from Patrick Volkerding. Thanks

I hardly dare ask whether your broadband is working :-)

a bit about hostnames etc:
for darkstar.example.net, darkstar would be the hostname, example.net is the domain.
darkstar.example.net is the FQDN or fully qualified domain name. Domain names commonly end in .com .org .net etc. (i never saw .2wire before, but I guess it is something to do with your cable connection)
Workgroup is a windows networking term, although samba (and cups via samba) use it for windows interworking.

anyway I doubt it is causing your printing problem for the reason I gave in my last post.

Apsfilter is deprecated in Slack 12 (in pasture), but of course you are free to experiment with it.
I will persuade you to return to cups/gutenprint if it doesn't work!

I think uncommenting those lines in rc.modules will do no harm. They are uncommented on my machine (my printer is on the parallel port) and all ok here.

could you please show output of

ls -l /dev/lp*
and
lsmod |grep parport

tobyl

tobyl, funny thing is broadband connection is working fine although I will change
the domain info. Where do I go in to edit that info? I did upgrade to xfce4.4.2. I did the upgradepkg_name as usr from /home/usr/desktop directory(is that all right?) Do have two more error messages now during shutdown. Oh well, other wise
all is working fine.
Wish I had been more Linux Hardware Compatibility when I purchased this Canon printer. Won't be buy canon printers again.

Here is the output you requested:
Thanks

When you upgrade a package, it doesn't matter where it is, you can just cd into the directory you downloaded it to.
But you should do it as root, not a user. (and not while you are in XFCE!)
Probably best to to an
upgradepkg --reinstall xxx.tgz as root

the other option being removepkg followed by installpkg

(there are man pages for these commands).

To modify your hostname etc is probably best to run netconfig again (as you do at install) as root, but if its working, might be best to leave it alone for now.

now as you can see here, only root and members of the group lp have write access to /dev/lp0

I would like you to try an experiment

as root, enter

chmod 666 /dev/lp0

then test printer again. This change will not survive a reboot, but we can fix that if it makes a difference

tobyl

edit: another thing you can do, is try printing from the terminal.
make a file in your home dir, eg called test.txt, and put a few words in it and save.
then at the prompt:
cd (on its own will take you home)
lp test.txt

What is this "Quota Error"? How do you get around it? Can't delete printer and add a new one and test? Printing from terminal per instructions either.

I know what quota is in normal linux systems, but not what it means in CUPS. Quota shows how much memory you/each user can use at max. When you reach quota limit, you can't do anything until you delete some files.

Post output of
EDIT: typo, thanks tobyl for pointing out

Alien Hominid means
I have seen people complaining about "Quota limit reached" before with cups. I think this error is related to permissions, except in the case where the quota really has been reached. This is set in cupsd.conf and is set to 0 by default in Slackware, so unless you have changed that, I suspect a permissions problem. This is why I wanted you to make /dev/lp0 world writable.

tobyl

Oh, sorry, glad that tobyl pointed it out.

Nightsky,

the lp command worked for me, but googling came up with this:

sorry, my lack of knowledge...

tobyl

After adding new printer in CUPS, successfully, added user
Then I tried:
Tobyl, no need to apologize for limited knowledge... at least you have your system up and running. lol
Could you take a look at this and tell me if I can get a slackware package out of the bjcups-2.2-1.tar.gz set, of bjcupsmon-2.2-1, bjfilter-2.2.-1, printui-2.2-1 or can we try the new gutenburg printer package? Thanks

Nightsky,

The lpoptions goes like this:


so you called you printer Parallel_Port_1 when you set up cups, therefore, your next command is

lpoptions -d PRINTERNAME, in your case

anyway I think we are getting close.
run that chmod command again if you rebooted, then run the correct lpoptions command from above

then restart cups for good measure:
/etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart
(all as root)
then test again.


Meanwhile I will sort out what you need to do for the latest gutenprint
full marks for your persistence by the way, a lot of people would have thrown in the towel by now!

tobyl

Nightsky,

read my previous post first.

Ok, here goes...

This is what (anyone correct me if i missed something) you need to do to get the shiny new current cups/gutenprint loaded.

First download the new packages, use whichever mirror suits you best.

from the /ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware directory you will see the various sections, a,ap,d,e etc, so retreive these files:

a/cups-1.3.4-i486-1.tgz
ap/ghostscript-8.61-i486-1.tgz
ap/gutenprint-5.0.1-i486-2.tgz
ap/foomatic-filters-3.0_20070919-i486-1.tgz

put them in a directory of their own somewhere.

you should normally come out of X when upgrading packages, but we can get away with it here, so

open a terminal
su to root, then
/etc/rc.d/rc.cups stop
removepkg cups
removepkg gimp-print
removepkg hplip (may not be installed)
removepkg espgs

next, we will completely clean up any left overs, by removing all files in these directories. run the following commands as root (exactly! do not do any typos here, these are powerful commands). It will moan about not removing directories, this is expected. If you prefer to do it from a file manager, then fine, but you will need to be root.

find /etc/cups/ -name "*" -exec rm {} \;

find /var/run/cups/ -name "*" -exec rm {} \;

find /var/spool/cups/ -name "*" -exec rm {} \;

find /var/log/cups/ -name "*" -exec rm {} \;

rm /etc/rc.d/rc.cups*

next we will install the new packages. cd to the directory where you put the downloaded packages, and as root again,

installpkg *.tgz

now go to /etc/rc.d/ and look for rc.cups. If there is a rc.cups.new, you must rename it
mv rc.cups.new rc.cups
and make sure it is executable:
chmod 755 rc.cups

now redo the permissions on /dev/lp0
chmod 666 /dev/lp0

start up cups:
/etc/rc.d/rc.cups start

finally, fire up your browser, localhost:631

redo the entire printer setup, choosing gutenprint/bjc7100 or gutenprint/bjc8200 (can't help you there, you will have to pick one and try)
make sure you add yourself as an allowed user and specify the parallel port, LPT1. You should not need to choose the .ppd file, just the printer (ie bjc7100 or 8200).

take a deep breath, and click test!

If that seems long-winded to you, well it is. Its normally much simpler, but the printing system had a major revamp in current, also I wanted to be sure of removing any cruft left behind from your previous attempts.

I am probably not going to have internet access again until after xmas, I will catch up with you then.

good luck,
tobyl

Thank you tobyl, and a Happy and Safe Holiday to you and everyone ...

After installing the new cups, still no print test and "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:631."
Removed Cups 1.3.4, cleaned out the corresponding files, reinstalled again to get localhost:631 connection.

Still getting "no system default destination and " after setting

Nightsky,

Did you follow my 'instructions'? I can't tell what you did or which version you now have installed.

when you get a message like this, you need to do a bit of investigating.
Why can't Firefox establish a connection? We need to check some things to find out why. If you just go back to the previous version, we will not know what was wrong. The questions I would ask are:
Is the cups server running?
ps -ef |grep cups

toby@darkstar:~$ ps -ef |grep cups
root 2672 1 0 14:33 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd (yes!)

Is the cups server listening for connections?
netstat -pantu (as root gives more info)
root@darkstar:~# netstat -pantu
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2672/cupsd (yes! on 127.0.0.1:631!)

(what happens if you put 127.0.0.1:631 in firefox?)

is my loopback connection working (to allow listening on localhost)
root@darkstar:~# ifconfig lo
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 <---------------- UP = yes!
RX packets:3513 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3513 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1461616 (1.3 MiB) TX bytes:1461616 (1.3 MiB)

If I get no connection, what happens if I restart cups and networking, then try localhost:631 again?
root@darkstar:~# /etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart
root@darkstar:~# /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart



did you reset the permissions on /dev/lp0 like I said, after a reboot?
root@darkstar:~# chmod 666 /dev/lp0
(this is just a workaround to not have to worry which groups your user is in, you could add yourself to the lp group, or test as root if you prefer, but my method is a neat way to find out if it is an issue or not, assuming all else is ok).

I also read that your printer name that you assign in cups should begin with an alpha character and not contain the "-" symbol. Probably worth trying without "_" in the name as well. (Maybe "Canon550i" would be suitable)
(you are excused, there's no way you could have 'known' that :-))

Also, I see that you are using
#lpoptions -d Parallel_Port_1 again, yet you appear to have now named your printer Gutenprint_Parallel_Port_1!
After you have setup your printer in cups you can run
bash-3.1$ lpstat -a
then you will see what your printer is called, so you can run
lpoptions -d <YOURPRINTERNAME>
where <YOURPRINTERNAME> is shown in the output from "lpstat -a"

the answer is staring at you!



I appreciate that it is frustrating, and you have probably pulled most of your hair out by now, but you can do it if you persevere. Just try to apply some logic. Think about what the commands are doing. You have definitely been unlucky with the hardware you have, it really does work out of the box for many people!

Hang on in there...

tobyl

Hi tobyl, Yes, I followed your instructions to install the cups 1.3.4 My loopback info is up and running. I changed the
lpoptions -d according to lpstat -a (output) and tried every combination of the suggested gutenprint drivers. #chmod 666 lp0 and /etc/rc.d/rc.cups restart. Last cups response is "Not Allowed to Print". I am not going to get a printer up on in xfce until i can find out exactly what all printer related config files have to look like or I can get src2pkg to create installable driver and filter packages. Thanks

Nightsky,

Good point, I should have given you my cupsd.conf sooner.
I have emailed it to you (using linuxquestions.org anonymous system) as it is too long to post here.

If you reply, I will know your email address. Then I can send the file as an attachment which will be easier for you to use.
It is so long because kde messed with it, but it works for me (in xfce as well as kde), maybe for you too! I didn't mention the kde configurator for cups, firstly because you have only xfce, secondly because it shouldn't be necessary, but anything is worth a try now.

tobyl

tobyl, don't know how significant following info is under xfce desktop menu: when I click on System, 4 items appear: bulk rename, Cups Print Manager, Thunar file manager, and Terminal shortcuts. When I click on Cups Print Manager, I get
SeaMonkey 1.1.2 and Cups Common Unix Printing System 1.2.11 despite having upgraded to cups 1.3 which is what I access with Firefox.
Got your config file and it looks like you just used all the defaults, didn't you have to change anything? Thanks much

Nightsky,

I think xfce is remembering versions from when it was installed. I can't remember how to update that right now.
There are changes in the cupsd.conf, see email...

tobyl

tobyl, Do you have broadband service provider and does it use a service provider firewall?
Maybe broadband service provider's default firewall interfere with Cups setup and
function? Is this possible?
Unfortunately sbcglobal now att does not provide tech support for linux users. Will google documentation.