On Thursday 18 December 2008 15:48:25 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Peter Humphrey > > <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 December 2008 21:48:50 Willie Wong wrote: > >> Basically you just need > > > > [...] > > > > What else do we need if the printer is an HP DJ4260? This seems to need > > net-print/hplip installed, but I haven't been able to get this working; > > it seems I haven't resolved a misconfiguration between hplip and cups. > > Is the DJ4260 accessible on the cups server using the LPR -P <NAME> > command?
Yes; see below. > If so, are you attempting to print from Vista or XP? So far I haven't even got Linux printing working; I wanted to succeed with that before trying from XP on my laptop. I've just restored a whistle-clean basic system to the server. Cups is installed, but not hplip. I set these values in cupsd.conf: # Allow remote access Listen *:631 Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock # Share local printers on the local network. Browsing On BrowseOrder allow,deny BrowseAddress @LOCAL # I don't know what this expands to DefaultAuthType Basic <Location /> # Allow shared printing... Order allow,deny Allow localhost Allow 192.168.2.* # Wired net including cups server host Allow 192.168.3.* # Wireless net, connecting via gateway Deny all </Location> <Location /admin> Encryption Required Order allow,deny Allow localhost Allow 192.168.2.6 # Workstation, allowed to administer </Location> <Location /admin/conf> AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM Order allow,deny Allow localhost Allow 192.168.2.6 </Location> These are the USE flags I installed CUPS with: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE="acl dbus jpeg pam perl png python ssl tiff -X -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -ldap -php -ppds -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW" Next I start the printers and use the Find New Printers function of the CUPS Web page to find them. While adding the Deskjet I select the generic deskjet driver that CUPS offers, and the process reports successful addition of the printer. However, when I ask for a test page, it's sent but never arrives. I get a 15%-complete status notified on the Web page, and that's all that happens. This is all via use of the CUPS Web pages, either by running Links on the server, or by running Firefox on the workstation with https://<server>:631. And yes, to answer your accessibility question: # lpr -P HP_Deskjet_D4200_series_USB_2 /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps # lpq -P HP_Deskjet_D4200_series_USB_2 HP_Deskjet_D4200_series_USB_2 is ready and printing Rank Owner Job File(s) Total Size active anonymo 1 Test Page 17408 bytes 1st root 2 testprint.ps 17408 bytes Job 1 in this list is the page I sent from the Web page; job 2 is the one sent from the command line. Nothing ever appeared on the printer. I've tried "Allow 192.168.2.0/29" in place of "Allow 192.168.2.*"; the result is the same. -- Rgds Peter
