On Sun, 2002-06-23 at 16:54, Jeremy Mereness wrote:
> I'm trying to print to a Windows printer over SAMBA on Mandrake 8.2.
>
> When I add the device, the first notable error in the CUPS error_log is
>
> LoadDevices: Added device "smb"...
> StartListening: NumListeners=3
> StartListening: address=7f000001 port=631
> Unable to bind to socket - Address already in use.
>
> Later on, while trying to print something, I get...
> foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH' -dSAFER' etc. etc. etc.
> **** Unable to open initial device, quitting.
>
> Assuming these two events are related, what can I do about a socket
> "already in use"?
>
> What do I do to diagnose which socket and what's locking it up?
I just had this recently after an upgrade. It was due to an error in my
cupsd.conf file that prevented cups from starting properly. Can you
print locally? Or is it just printing over samba that doesn't work?
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