-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 11:10, Alan Dunford wrote: > Anne Wilson and Ed Tharp wrote: > >#ServerName myhost.domain.com > > > >Put the windows box name into that line, if it's not already there. > > > >Anne > > Thanks to both for the above comments. > <snip> > > /etc/cups/client.conf > > # > # ServerName: the hostname of your server. By default CUPS will use the > # hostname of the system or the value of the CUPS_SERVER environment > # variable. ONLY ONE SERVER NAME MAY BE SPECIFIED AT A TIME. To use > # more than one server you must use a local scheduler with browsing > # and possibly polling. > # > > ServerName 192.168.0.2 windows.foxsys > I would try IP *or* machine name, but probably not both. It may have nothing to do with it, but it's easy enough to check :-) I did have one box that would only print if I gave it the short name - eg. 'windows' in your example. I must stress, though, that my printing is between Mandrake boxes, so I have no idea about the windows end - I'm leaving that to Ed.
> > > Windows c:\system32\hosts contains the line:- > > 192.168.0.3 linux.foxsys #linux > > > My one doubt is the entry in /etc/cups/client.conf which I _think_ is ok > but should this have the entry "ServerName" ahead of the IP address etc? > > So you can see I am still at a loss to explain the cause of the problem > - any further thoughts would, of course, be welcome - the alternative I > face is either reconnecting the printer or putting another one on the > linux box. > Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB5QeWkFAvMr/nNX8RAoroAJ4utzhYmPcsHyfGZoD0fzq83JaLjACePO/7 azL1Tm9UznCnQeJMv/Guats= =+1cf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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