On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > Hello, > > As it's the New Year, perhaps it's time to resume banging my head on this > wall again. > > I have a server with two printers connected, set up using the cups Web page > and operating properly. Now I want to send print jobs to them from my > workstation, which is on the same network, and with the same version of > cups: 1.3.9-r1. One of the printers is an HP Deskjet D4260, so I also have > hplip version 2.8.6b installed on both machines. I can connect either > printer to either machine and print locally without any problems. > > However, I cannot get anything to print over the network. If, on the > workstation, I declare the network laser printer and connect to it, all > appears to work until I send a print job to it; the job sits in the lp > queue locally, and when I next look at the status of the printer it > says "Destination printer does not exist!" > > If I try to set up the Deskjet as a remote printer in the local cups server, > I get "Filter "foomatic-rip" for printer "HP_Deskjet_D4260" not available: > No such file or directory". > > I don't know what to try next. Anyone any idea here? > > -- > Rgds > Peter
Hi Peter, For the sake of conversation how about emerge flags? My server: Sector9 ~ # emerge -pv cups hplip These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE="X acl dbus jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python samba ssl tiff -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -php -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW" 0 kB [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-2.8.6b USE="dbus ppds qt3 qt4 -cupsddk -doc -fax -minimal -parport -scanner -snmp" 0 kB One of my clients: dragonfly ~ # emerge -pv cups hplip These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE="X acl dbus jpeg ldap pam perl png ppds python ssl tiff -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -php -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf" LINGUAS="en -de -es -et -fr -he -id -it -ja -pl -sv -zh_TW" 0 kB [ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-2.8.6b USE="dbus ppds qt3 qt4 -cupsddk -doc -fax -minimal -parport -scanner -snmp" 0 kB I can send config files again if you need them but they haven't changed in the few weeks since you looked at this. Cheers, Mark
