On Thursday 08 April 2010 11:11:01 John Cooper wrote: > On 08/04/10 09:23, Samuel Penn wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've recently started having problems with my CUPS setup, and I'm > > somewhat unsure what has gone wrong and why, so suggestions on how > > best to troubleshoot (or even better, fix) greatly appreciated. > > > > I have CUPS setup on a server to print to a network printer. I > > can print a test page from the CUPS web interface and that works > > just fine. However, none of the printers appear in any printing > > dialogs (e.g. KDE or Acrobat). > > > > If I start up a CUPS instance on a different machine, that picks > > up the printer since it's being successfully shared from the > > original server. They also now appear in the print dialogs but > > attempts to print to them go nowhere. They don't appear in the > > job list on the main server, but do appear in the job list on > > the second CUPS server (but never start printing). > > > > Desktop and servers are running Gentoo. The CUPS server is > > installed into a vserver. > > > > Thanks. > > Just double check the "Server" settings on the Administration page. > > https://127.0.0.1:631/admin
My server is headless, but I can see this via: https://192.168.161.102:631/admin/ > My ticked sections marked as a "x" here :- > x Show printers shared by other systems > x Share printers connected to this system > Allow printing from the Internet > Allow remote administration > Use Kerberos authentication (FAQ) > x Allow users to cancel any job (not just their own) > Save debugging information for troubleshooting Allow remote administration and allow printer from the internet are both on (the latter whilst desperately trying anything to get it to work). > Another test is to try to go to the server from your client PC > > https://your_server_ip:631/printers > > as they must be able to see this to print. >From my desktop I can this and even go to: https://192.168.161.102:631/printers/XeroxDuplex And print a test page, and this works just fine. Printing from an application from the same desktop doesn't work however since I can't even see the printers listed. -- Be seeing you, http://www.glendale.org.uk Sam. Mail/IM (Jabber): s...@glendale.org.uk -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
