Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 21:13, civileme wrote: On Monday 20 August 2001 16:48, Judith Miner wrote: Civileme wrote concerning my printing problem: Is your firewall by any chance blocking port 631? You need 631 open, at least on localhost, for cups to work. How would I find out? I set up my firewall through Mandrake Control Center, Firewall section. I answered no to all the questions because my computer is not any kind of server and is not connected to any other computer (aside from when I'm online). --Judy Miner urpmi nmapfe then when nmap is on your menu fire it up and do a straight scan of 127.0.0.1 for open ports. Civileme I had this problem ie browser couldn't connect to localhost:631. In my case the reason was that cups wasn't running. I dont know how it got stopped but when I restarted it fom Control CentreSystemServices eveything was fine. You could check this in case it helps. -- Peter Watson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please
Update on my printing problem with my Lexmark 1100. I've done what was suggested, but still nothing comes out of the printer. Civileme pointed out that port 631 has to be open and said: when nmap is on your menu fire it up and do a straight scan of 127.0.0.1 for open ports. I ran nmap and Port 631 was listed as open. Todd suggested: iptables --list -n Look for a line that has 631 or cups on it. If you're using the firewall, you won't see it. Call it a minor oversight, but the firewall blocks port 631 by default. I did that and did not see a 631 or cups in the list. However, when I ran nmap Port 631 was listed as open. My guess is that the problem isn't with the port. This is a cheap winprinter, but it does have a driver for Linux and CUPS and I do get a nice test page out of it. When I give a print command or drag a file onto the prnter icon, nothing happens. Checking in Kups, I see the job listed as processing. However, it never stops processing, even after giving it many minutes to finish. I finally remove the job because it's evident that nothing is going to come out of the printer. I've printed out a big stack of stuff on CUPS, printing in Mandrake, cups-o-matic, and this driver and unless someone has another suggestion, I'll work my way through all this material and see if I can figure out what's happening. If I'm successful I'll post what worked. Thanks! --Judy Miner Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please
On Monday 20 August 2001 16:48, Judith Miner wrote: Civileme wrote concerning my printing problem: Is your firewall by any chance blocking port 631? You need 631 open, at least on localhost, for cups to work. How would I find out? I set up my firewall through Mandrake Control Center, Firewall section. I answered no to all the questions because my computer is not any kind of server and is not connected to any other computer (aside from when I'm online). --Judy Miner urpmi nmapfe then when nmap is on your menu fire it up and do a straight scan of 127.0.0.1 for open ports. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Need printing help, please
okay.. ive seen this urpmi command quite a lot, what does it do? -- Jamie -- From: civileme[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2001 21:13 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Judith Miner Subject: Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please File: message.txt On Monday 20 August 2001 16:48, Judith Miner wrote: Civileme wrote concerning my printing problem: Is your firewall by any chance blocking port 631? You need 631 open, at least on localhost, for cups to work. How would I find out? I set up my firewall through Mandrake Control Center, Firewall section. I answered no to all the questions because my computer is not any kind of server and is not connected to any other computer (aside from when I'm online). --Judy Miner urpmi nmapfe then when nmap is on your menu fire it up and do a straight scan of 127.0.0.1 for open ports. Civileme _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please
On Tuesday 14 August 2001 22:30, Judith Miner wrote: Thanks for the explanation and suggestions. I did try printing a file directly with xpp but had the same results: nothing. I have downloaded quite a bit of information on CUPS, cups-o-matic, and Linux printing and will try to work my way through it and figure out what's happening. --Judy Miner - Original Message - From: a [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 12, 2001 1:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please On Sunday 12 August 2001 17:42, Judith Miner wrote: Sridhar wrote with regard to my printing problem: Try printing to a postscript file (available in the print settings of most apps) and then printing that with xpp. [snip] DON'T remove xpp make XPP the target of your print command instead of lpr -P pronter in the command line for printing when you call a print put xpp there. Then you can always print In StarOffice, you need to run SPA as root and make the connection of the derfault printer to xpp. Then things should starrt working. Also run xpp as a user, not as root because it builds a user file which overrides the root configuration settings. Civileme Is your firewall by any chance blocking port 631? You need 631 open, at least on localhost, for cups to work. Civileme Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please
Thanks for the explanation and suggestions. I did try printing a file directly with xpp but had the same results: nothing. I have downloaded quite a bit of information on CUPS, cups-o-matic, and Linux printing and will try to work my way through it and figure out what's happening. --Judy Miner - Original Message - From: a [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Judith Miner [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 12, 2001 1:42 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Need printing help, please On Sunday 12 August 2001 17:42, Judith Miner wrote: Sridhar wrote with regard to my printing problem: Try printing to a postscript file (available in the print settings of most apps) and then printing that with xpp. [snip] DON'T remove xpp make XPP the target of your print command instead of lpr -P pronter in the command line for printing when you call a print put xpp there. Then you can always print In StarOffice, you need to run SPA as root and make the connection of the derfault printer to xpp. Then things should starrt working. Also run xpp as a user, not as root because it builds a user file which overrides the root configuration settings. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
