et wrote:
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:10 am, Alan Dunford wrote:Thanks both for your comments - have rebooted windows and restarted the network also with no change, Ed. Will edit the lines in the various conf files, Anne.
Anne Wilson and Ed Tharp wrote:
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On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 10:58, et wrote:
On Monday 10 January 2005 01:52 pm, Alan Dunford wrote:
does the linux box /etc/hosts, /etc/host.allow and /etc/hosts.deny andHi,
Here we have an annoying problem getting CUPS/Windows to print. The setup is a Linux box running Mandrake 10.0 Official and a Windows box running XP Home edition. The printer on the Windows box is an old Canon BJC250 which is not a problem in itself.
Now CUPS on the Linux box of course appears to be set up correctly with the Windows IP address recognised as also is the Canon printer. When I sent a test page to the Windows machine I get a message that the page has been sent BUT there is no such message in the Window print queue. The in-built Windows firewall is off.
Print from the Windows machine itself is ok and the problem therefore seems to lie between my Linux box and the Windows machine.
Any ideas please as I am rapidly losing what is left of my hair. :-)
windows box c:\hosts files correctly name the other box?
Also check /etc/cups/client.conf, particularly for
# 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 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.
The changes suggested have now been made/checked with no improvement. The appropriate lines are shown below:-
"router" is the gateway connected to my cable modem "windows" is the box running XP and is the print server "linux" runs my CUPS server and is my main workstation "server" is a backup machine on the network "foxsys" is the domain
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 router.foxsys router 192.168.0.2 windows.foxsys windows 192.168.0.3 linux.foxsys linux 192.168.0.4 server.foxsys server
/etc/hosts.allow
127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.0.1 router.foxsys router 192.168.0.2 windows.foxsys windows 192.168.0.3 linux.foxsys linux 192.168.0.4 server.foxsys server
/etc/hosts.deny
(blank)
/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
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.
Thanks again for any further ideas. :-[
did you do a "service network restart" on the linux boxes and a reboot on the windows boxes?
Onward and upward - one way I suppose to spend a winter's morning (or maybe week). :-)
Just by the way for some unaccountable reason, mail server would not accept a normal "reply to" and bounced my earlier reply - will try again. - this is a new message.
Regards
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