Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 6:22 PM, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-07-24 23:32, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:59 AM, mick.crane wrote: >>> On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote: >>>> What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS prin

SOLVED: Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:09 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer > software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? > > Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and > "ultimate&

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-24 23:32, Rick Thomas wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:59 AM, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote: What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, at 3:59 AM, mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote: >> What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer >> software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? >> >> Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD ma

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-07-24 11:09, Rick Thomas wrote: What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and "ultimate") only have 500 MB of RAM. So I'm

Re: How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 24 Jul 2024 03:09 -0700, from rick.tho...@pobox.com (Rick Thomas): > I'd like to install CUPS to interface the OpenRDs to my HP laser > printer, but I haven't found any way to configure CUPS with only a > CLI text console. The recommended way in the CUPS docs is to point a > web browser at

How to configure CUPS printer software on a machine with no GUI -- only text CLI console.

2024-07-24 Thread Rick Thomas
What's the best way to install (and configure) the CUPS printer software on a machine that doesn't have any GUI software? Specifically, the Marvell OpenRD machines that I have ("client" and "ultimate") only have 500 MB of RAM. So I'm reluctant to install a GUI (though

Re: CUPS printer on Debian 11.6

2023-02-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 05 Feb 2023 at 20:52:42 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Fresh installation of Debian 11.6 on Dell Vostro 200 (Intel Core 2). > > The Vostro 200 is being added to a home LAN with Debian 11.6 running > on a nondescript desktop (amd64) and a HP Laserjet P3015 Postscript > (Ethernet). The

Re: CUPS printer on Debian 11.6

2023-02-05 Thread john doe
On 2/5/23 21:52, Russell L. Harris wrote: Fresh installation of Debian 11.6 on Dell Vostro 200 (Intel Core 2). The Vostro 200 is being added to a home LAN with Debian 11.6 running on a nondescript desktop (amd64) and a HP Laserjet P3015 Postscript (Ethernet).  The amd64 machine works perfectly

CUPS printer on Debian 11.6

2023-02-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
Fresh installation of Debian 11.6 on Dell Vostro 200 (Intel Core 2). The Vostro 200 is being added to a home LAN with Debian 11.6 running on a nondescript desktop (amd64) and a HP Laserjet P3015 Postscript (Ethernet). The amd64 machine works perfectly with the P3015. The printer configuration

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-09 12:31, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 11:29:28 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-12-09 10:25, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 10:04:14 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-12-08 13:29, Brian wrote: avahi-browse -art > log1 -bash: avahi-browse: command not found - for

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 17:31:46 +, Brian wrote: > The printer is found at TheLibrarian.local and its resource path is > printers/CP1215, giving a URI of > > ipp://TheLibrarian.local:631/printers/CP1215 > > At present you are relying on cups-browsed on the client to discover, > auto-setup

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-09 10:25, Brian wrote: On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 10:04:14 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-12-08 13:29, Brian wrote: avahi-browse -art > log1 -bash: avahi-browse: command not found - for both regular user and root on the server and post log here as an attachment. avahi-browse is

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-08 13:29, Brian wrote: On Tue 08 Dec 2020 at 12:27:18 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my server. I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server by a USB cable. I can print a CUPS test page from the server but

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2020-12-08 16:19, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Gary Dale writes: I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my server. I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server by a USB cable. I can print a CUPS test page from the server but not from my workstation.

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 11:29:28 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2020-12-09 10:25, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 10:04:14 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > > > > On 2020-12-08 13:29, Brian wrote: > > > > avahi-browse -art > log1 > > > -bash: avahi-browse: command not found - for both regular

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Dec 2020 at 10:04:14 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > On 2020-12-08 13:29, Brian wrote: > > > >avahi-browse -art > log1 > > -bash: avahi-browse: command not found - for both regular user and root > > > on the server and post log here as an attachment. avahi-browse is in the > >

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-08 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Gary Dale writes: > I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my server. > I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server by a USB > cable. I can print a CUPS test > page from the server but not from my workstation. When I try to print > anything from

Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-08 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my server. I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server by a USB cable. I can print a CUPS test page from the server but not from my workstation. When I try to print anything from my workstation to that

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-08 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 Dec 2020 at 19:24:45 +0100, deloptes wrote: > Gary Dale wrote: > > > I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my > > server. I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server > > by a USB cable. I can print a CUPS test page from the server but not

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-08 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 Dec 2020 at 12:27:18 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my > server. I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server by a > USB cable. I can print a CUPS test page from the server but not from my The server is not

Re: Can't print to CUPS printer on my server

2020-12-08 Thread deloptes
Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Bullseye on my workstation and Debian/Buster on my > server. I have an old HP CP-1215 color laserjet attached to the server > by a USB cable. I can print a CUPS test page from the server but not > from my workstation. When I try to print anything from my

SOLVED, mostly. [Was: Re: Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.

2018-06-24 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 24.06.18 10:04, mick crane wrote: > On 2018-06-23 13:12, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test > > page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other > > print jobs not at all. Again, printing from xpdf, the job is

Re: Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.

2018-06-24 Thread mick crane
On 2018-06-23 13:12, Erik Christiansen wrote: Aargh! Apologies for committing a subthread hijack. That wasn't intended. The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other print jobs not at all. Again,

Re: Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.

2018-06-23 Thread Erik Christiansen
Aargh! Apologies for committing a subthread hijack. That wasn't intended. The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other print jobs not at all. Again, printing from xpdf, the job is queued: $ lpq

Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.

2018-06-23 Thread Erik Christiansen
After a fresh update of CUPS, and a fresh "Add Printer", selecting the first (gutenberg) model option, printing a pdf page from xpdf caused display of GUI message boxes indicating "printing started" and "printing completed", but no printer output. At localhost:631 -> Job Management, "Show all

Re: cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:57:48 -0300, David Roguin wrote: I have a debian server which have an epson printer installed to it. The printer works fine with windows and linux clients but when I try to print with a mac it asks for a password and then the printer stops with the error

Re: cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-10 Thread Guy Gold
On Fri,Aug 10 02:35:PM, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, being a MacOS client, you should be able to use IPP and thus avoiding messing up with another client/server protocols that may require setting up the correct credentials for accessing the printing resources (e.g., samba). It is a good

Re: cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:42:20 -0400, Guy Gold wrote: On Fri,Aug 10 02:35:PM, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, being a MacOS client, you should be able to use IPP and thus avoiding messing up with another client/server protocols that may require setting up the correct credentials for accessing the

cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-09 Thread David Roguin
Hello, I have a debian server which have an epson printer installed to it. The printer works fine with windows and linux clients but when I try to print with a mac it asks for a password and then the printer stops with the error

Re: cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/08/12 03:57 PM, David Roguin wrote: Hello, I have a debian server which have an epson printer installed to it. The printer works fine with windows and linux clients but when I try to print with a mac it asks for a password and then the printer stops with the error

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2011, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:06:48 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Show us the output of: lpr -P your_printer /etc/hosts Greetings, -- Camaleón Thanks, Camaleon and everyone else who has helped. Everything is working now; the solution was to set the

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2011, Brian wrote: On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 14:09:45 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: But what IS the default print queue in Cups? I can't find that specified in any of the docs I've looked at. Or do I just create it? At http://localhost:631/printers/ there should be a 'Set As

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing - SOLVED

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2011, Dom wrote: To show the current default queue: lpstat -d To list and show the status of all queues: lpstat -a To set the CUPS default queue: lpadmin -d queuename -- Dom Thanks to everyone for patience and replies. Printing is now working following suggestions

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:06:48 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 04 Aug 2011, Brian wrote: On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 14:09:45 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: But what IS the default print queue in Cups? I can't find that specified in any of the docs I've looked at. Or do I just create it? At

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-08-04 17:06:48 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I did that but still I get the error message with lpr -no default destination. Which libcups2 do you use? In my case, with libcups2 1.4.7-1: ypig:~ lpq lpq: error - no default destination available. and with libcups2 1.4.6-11+b1: ypig:~

Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
My /dev/usb/lp0 disappeared (again) and after two days' work trying to get it back I finally gave up and installed the dreaded Cups. This detected my Samsung ML2571N without problems and I thought everything was fine. But, with the recommended driver, printing a test page gives a blank sheet.

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Brian
On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 10:24:38 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: This detected my Samsung ML2571N without problems and I thought everything was fine. But, with the recommended driver, printing a test page gives a blank sheet. Which package did you install to get the driver?

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Aug 2011, Brian wrote: On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 10:24:38 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: This detected my Samsung ML2571N without problems and I thought everything was fine. But, with the recommended driver, printing a test page gives a blank sheet. Which package did you install to

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Dom
On 04/08/11 14:09, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 04 Aug 2011, Brian wrote: On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 10:24:38 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: no system default destination You haven't told CUPS what the default print queue is. It can be done from the browser interface. But what IS the default

Re: Cups: printer installed but not printing

2011-08-04 Thread Brian
On Thu 04 Aug 2011 at 14:09:45 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: But what IS the default print queue in Cups? I can't find that specified in any of the docs I've looked at. Or do I just create it? At http://localhost:631/printers/ there should be a 'Set As Default' option. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: VM client can't access CUPS printer

2011-06-28 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:36:46 +, Steve Kleene wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:13:18 +, I wrote: I have a Wheezy host with a USB printer and a virtualbox XP client. The VM (client) is unable to access the CUPS printer. On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:51:40 +, Camaleón replied: Also

Re: VM client can't access CUPS printer

2011-06-28 Thread Steve Kleene
I have a Wheezy host with a USB printer and a virtualbox XP client. The VM (client) is unable to access the CUPS printer. On 2011-06-28 12:09:49 GMT, Camaleón replied: Openprinting has a related comment on this postscript error: http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Xerox/Xerox-Phaser_6280

CUPS printer prints garbage from VM (was: VM client can't access CUPS printer)

2011-06-28 Thread Steve Kleene
I have a Wheezy host with a USB CUPS printer (Xerox Phaser 6280DN) and a virtualbox XP client. All of the software is up-to-date, including the vbox guest additions and extension pack. The VM (client) accesses the CUPS printer but just prints a page of PostScript errors. Here's the whole story

Re: CUPS printer prints garbage from VM (was: VM client can't access CUPS printer)

2011-06-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:39:04 +, Steve Kleene wrote: (...) So two questions: Q1. Are the client's drivers even relevant here when it accesses the CUPS printer, or is everything done by the host's PPD? Yes, as long as you instructed windows xp to use its own set of drivers. Q2. Any

Re: CUPS printer prints garbage from VM (was: VM client can't access CUPS printer)

2011-06-28 Thread Steve Kleene
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:39:04 + (UTC), I wrote: I have a Wheezy host with a USB CUPS printer (Xerox Phaser 6280DN) and a virtualbox XP client. All of the software is up-to-date, including the vbox guest additions and extension pack. The VM (client) accesses the CUPS printer but just

VM client can't access CUPS printer

2011-06-27 Thread Steve Kleene
I have a Wheezy host with a USB printer and a virtualbox XP client. The VM (client) is unable to access the CUPS printer. In XP, I have tried URLs of this form in defining a network printer: http://URL:631/printers/Phaser_6280DN where URL is any one of the following: 10.97.14.132 (host IP

Re: VM client can't access CUPS printer

2011-06-27 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:13:18 +, Steve Kleene wrote: I have a Wheezy host with a USB printer and a virtualbox XP client. The VM (client) is unable to access the CUPS printer. On the host, run lpstat -t and put here the output. Also, how does you /etc/cups/cupsd.conf look like? (remove

Re: VM client can't access CUPS printer

2011-06-27 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:13:18 +, I wrote: I have a Wheezy host with a USB printer and a virtualbox XP client. The VM (client) is unable to access the CUPS printer. On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:51:40 +, Camaleón replied: Also, how does you /etc/cups/cupsd.conf look like? That was the right

Re: Setting a default network cups printer [somewhat OT]

2010-12-15 Thread Wayne Topa
On 12/14/2010 01:41 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:31:37 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 12/14/2010 04:36 AM, Camaleón wrote: Okay, let me check it in my squeeze: r...@debian:~# lpoptions -d ricoh (...) File loptions has been created there. The working Test-squeeze has the

Re: Setting a default network cups printer [somewhat OT]

2010-12-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:20:19 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 12/13/2010 05:13 PM, Camaleón wrote: It seems from the lpoptions man page that the files you cite above are created by the lpoptions command. Mmm, no, I don't think so. Or at least I didn't get in that way. What I understand from

Re: Setting a default network cups printer [somewhat OT]

2010-12-14 Thread Wayne Topa
On 12/14/2010 04:36 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:20:19 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 12/13/2010 05:13 PM, Camaleón wrote: It seems from the lpoptions man page that the files you cite above are created by the lpoptions command. Mmm, no, I don't think so. Or at least I didn't

Re: Setting a default network cups printer [somewhat OT]

2010-12-14 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:31:37 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 12/14/2010 04:36 AM, Camaleón wrote: Okay, let me check it in my squeeze: r...@debian:~# lpoptions -d ricoh (...) File loptions has been created there. The working Test-squeeze has the same as yours, but, The lpoptions file is

Re: Setting a default network cups printer [somewhat OT]

2010-12-14 Thread Wayne Topa
On 12/14/2010 01:41 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:31:37 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 12/14/2010 04:36 AM, Camaleón wrote: ~$ ls /media/testing/etc/cups/ classes.confcupsd.conf cupsd.conf.dpkg-old cups-pdf.conf printers.confprinters-old.conf

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:30:06 +, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:59:10 +, Camaleón wrote: Hum, indeed, that is the command suggested by CUPS for setting the default printer: *** http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/options.html Setting the Default Printer If you

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-13 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:22:39PM +, Camale??n wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:30:06 +, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:59:10 +, Camaleón wrote: Hum, indeed, that is the command suggested by CUPS for setting the default printer: ***

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:12:58 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:22:39PM +, Camale??n wrote: (...) I always set the default printer from CUPS web interface and IIRC, you need the root password for delicate tasks (like adding a new printer or setting the default one). So,

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-13 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 12/13/2010 01:12 PM, Joel Roth wrote: Does anyone know how to handle this _without_ root permissions? I see there is an 'lp' group and user. Within the narrow context of this question I believe you can add any regular user to the lpadmin group to give that user permissions to configure

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-13 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:22:39 +, Camaleón wrote: Anyone know how I can get rid of this lpoptions default printer and use system default? Hum... I'm not sure what do you mean here by system default :-) Hi Camaleón, thanks for your reply in other message. I did rm ~/.cups/lpoptions and

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-13 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:17:42PM -0500, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 12/13/2010 01:12 PM, Joel Roth wrote: Does anyone know how to handle this _without_ root permissions? I see there is an 'lp' group and user. Within the narrow context of this question I believe you can add any regular

Re: Setting a default network cups printer [somewhat OT]

2010-12-13 Thread Wayne Topa
On 12/13/2010 02:06 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:12:58 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:22:39PM +, Camale??n wrote: (...) I always set the default printer from CUPS web interface and IIRC, you need the root password for delicate tasks (like adding a new

Re: Setting a default network cups printer [somewhat OT]

2010-12-13 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:14:34 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 12/13/2010 02:06 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:12:58 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Does anyone know how to handle this _without_ root permissions? I see there is an 'lp' group and user. As per man lpoptions: *** FILES

Re: Setting a default network cups printer [somewhat OT]

2010-12-13 Thread Wayne Topa
On 12/13/2010 05:13 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 16:14:34 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: On 12/13/2010 02:06 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:12:58 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: Does anyone know how to handle this _without_ root permissions? I see there is an 'lp' group and user.

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-12 Thread T o n g
First of all, thanks every one who responded. On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:00:23 +, Camaleón wrote: What does lpstat -t | grep default say? Oh, that's how you find default printers -- $ lpstat -t | grep default system default destination: epson_cx1500 Still pointing to my old printer

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:15:17 +, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:00:23 +, Camaleón wrote: Besides David's advice, have you tried by restarting cups daemon (/etc/ init.d/cups restart) on the client side? :-? Hmm... super strange. I restarted the cups daemon on the client side,

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-12 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:59:10 +, Camaleón wrote: Hum, indeed, that is the command suggested by CUPS for setting the default printer: *** http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/options.html Setting the Default Printer If you normally use a particular printer, you can tell CUPS to use

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-12 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 09:30:06PM +, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:59:10 +, Camaleón wrote: But using CUPS web interface and set the default printer from there should have the same effect. Didn't that work for you? :-? That's the first thing that I tried. but I got a 404

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:25:10 +, T o n g wrote: I'm having difficulties setting a default network cups printer. I've set the default printer on the server, and verified via the web interface. Also, I did lpadmin -d new_printer on my client host, either as root and as myself

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-11 Thread T o n g
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:34:04 +, Camaleón wrote: I've set the default printer on the server, and verified via the web interface. Also, I did lpadmin -d new_printer on my client host, either as root and as myself. However, the printing still goes to the old printer that I set

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-11 Thread David Jardine
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 06:39:28PM +, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:34:04 +, Camaleón wrote: I've set the default printer on the server, and verified via the web interface. Also, I did lpadmin -d new_printer on my client host, either as root and as myself.

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:39:28 +, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:34:04 +, Camaleón wrote: What does lpstat -t | grep default say? Oh, that's how you find default printers -- $ lpstat -t | grep default system default destination: epson_cx1500 Still pointing to my old

Re: Setting a default network cups printer

2010-12-11 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 06:25:10PM +, T o n g wrote: Hi, I'm having difficulties setting a default network cups printer. I've set the default printer on the server, and verified via the web interface. Also, I did lpadmin -d new_printer on my client host, either as root

Re: Cups - printer..........

2009-07-04 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:33:30 +0200 Florian Kulzer florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es shared this with us all: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 19:07:05 +1000, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:52:41 +0200 Florian Kulzer shared this with us all: On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:09:49 +1000, Charlie wrote:

Debian mirror in Australia [was Re: Cups - printer..........]

2009-07-04 Thread Arthur Marsh
Charlie wrote, on 2009-07-05 08:34: ... The following NEW packages will be installed: ghostscript-cups 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get 73.8kB of archives. After unpacking 250kB will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Err

Re: Debian mirror in Australia [was Re: Cups - printer..........]

2009-07-04 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 12:12:53 +0930 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net shared this with us all: Charlie wrote, on 2009-07-05 08:34: ... The following NEW packages will be installed: ghostscript-cups 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. Need to get

Re: Cups - printer..........

2009-07-04 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:33:30 +0200 Florian Kulzer wrote: Which version of ghostscript-cups is installed on your system? Thank you Florian, Installed ghostscript-cups and the printer works once again. Your help is much appreciated. Charlie --- Registered Linux User:- 329524

Re: Cups - printer..........

2009-07-03 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:52:41 +0200 Florian Kulzer florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es shared this with us all: On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:09:49 +1000, Charlie wrote: Hello Everyone, Could someone please tell me what they have in their: Cups server Host and Port when they do: kaddprinterwizard

Re: Cups - printer..........

2009-07-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 19:07:05 +1000, Charlie wrote: On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 21:52:41 +0200 Florian Kulzer shared this with us all: On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:09:49 +1000, Charlie wrote: Could someone please tell me what they have in their: Cups server Host and Port when they do:

Re: Cups - printer..........

2009-07-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:09:49 +1000, Charlie wrote: Hello Everyone, Could someone please tell me what they have in their: Cups server Host and Port when they do: kaddprinterwizard --kdeconfig If they use cups and printer working in Debian Squeeze [testing] I have this on Sid (which

Cups - printer..........

2009-07-01 Thread Charlie
Hello Everyone, Could someone please tell me what they have in their: Cups server Host and Port when they do: kaddprinterwizard --kdeconfig If they use cups and printer working in Debian Squeeze [testing] Thank you, Charlie --- Registered Linux User:- 329524

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/15/08 00:22, T o n g wrote: Hi, I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, because previously, /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb can returns my printer info, now it is empty. How should I fix

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:49:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, because previously, /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb can returns my printer info, now it is empty. How

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/15/08 00:22, T o n g wrote: Hi, I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, because previously, /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb can returns my printer info, now it is empty. How should I fix

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 17:07, Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/15/08 00:22, T o n g wrote: Hi, I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, because previously, /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb can

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:58:19 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, because previously, /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb can returns my printer info, now it is empty

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread T o n g
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:07:54 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: I'm stumped, too. $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb dpkg: /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb not found. $ apt-file search /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb $ $ dir /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17220 2008-10-11 05:59

Re: Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-15 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, T o n g engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:49:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: --} --} I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I --} found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, --} because

update: Can't config cups printer, problem gone

2008-10-15 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:14:35 +, T o n g wrote: I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. Somehow, the command /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb now returns my printer info. I turn off and on the printer before running the command, both when posting the OP, and now

Can't config cups printer, no backends found

2008-10-14 Thread T o n g
Hi, I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. I found that the reason might be that no cups backends can be found, because previously, /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb can returns my printer info, now it is empty. How should I fix it? thanks PS. my cups: $ dpkg -l

Make Apple Bonjour (rendezvous) discover CUPS printer

2007-12-18 Thread webjay
Hello. I have an USB printer connected to my Debian Etch and can print via CUPS. Now I would like Apple Bonjour (rendezvous) to automatically discover the printer. How can I do that? Thanks, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Nick Jacobs
upgraded from something that was stable and worked (despite having some theoretical deficiencies) to something that is bug-ridden and unsuitable for general use (despite being theoretically wonderful). -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/usb-cups-printer-problem-after-etch

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:18:10AM -0700, Nick Jacobs wrote: Florian Kulzer-3 wrote: As far as I understand udev, it should always use the lowest free lpX node for a new printer. That's just the problem, it doesn't always. If it did that consistently, nobody would have had a

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:18:10 -0700, Nick Jacobs wrote: Florian Kulzer-3 wrote: As far as I understand udev, it should always use the lowest free lpX node for a new printer. That's just the problem, it doesn't always. If it did that consistently, nobody would have had a problem

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
:0016 Brother Industries, Ltd Bus 001 Device 001: ID : I had a similar problem and found that what happens is that Etch can assign a different lp device number to the printer every time it's turned on. So if your CUPS printer is set up as /dev/usb/lp0, CUPS won't see anything on lp0

Re: usb/cups printer problem

2007-05-06 Thread slvr00gt
I have exactly the same problem. I tried your suggestion and changed lp0 to lp2 ( in my case printer is attached to device number 2). It didn't help at all. Same printer not connected message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-05 Thread Nick Jacobs
a similar problem and found that what happens is that Etch can assign a different lp device number to the printer every time it's turned on. So if your CUPS printer is set up as /dev/usb/lp0, CUPS won't see anything on lp0. lsusb tells you what the device number is. In your case, it seems to be 28

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
: ID 04f9:0016 Brother Industries, Ltd Bus 001 Device 001: ID : I had a similar problem and found that what happens is that Etch can assign a different lp device number to the printer every time it's turned on. So if your CUPS printer is set up as /dev/usb/lp0, CUPS won't see anything

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-01 Thread graham
Hi Florian, Unfortunately, I ran out of time to work on this. So I have abandoned my print server and temporarily moved to using the printer as a local printer attached to the parallel port on my workstation. When it gets sufficiently annoying not to be able to print from other machines I

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 00:56:24 +0100, graham wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Compare a directory listing before and after you plug in the printer if necessary. You can use something like find /dev/ | sort before.txt plug in the printer find /dev/ | sort after.txt diff -u

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 23:08:39 +0100, graham wrote: Hi Florian, Thanks for the response! Answers inline below: basically everything seems to be right - but cups still thinks the printer is paused... Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 15:18:52 +0100, graham wrote: Hi, I have

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