On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:21 am, Alan Dunford wrote: > et wrote: > >On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:10 am, Alan Dunford wrote: > >>Anne Wilson and Ed Tharp wrote: > >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>>Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>>On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 10:58, et wrote: > >>>>On Monday 10 January 2005 01:52 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: > >>>>>Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>>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. :-) > >>>> > >>>>does the linux box /etc/hosts, /etc/host.allow and /etc/hosts.deny and > >>>>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? > > 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. > > 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 If you have a firewall running on the linux box turn it off and try printing. If that works you may need to open port 631 on the firewall config? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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