On Tuesday 06 January 2009 15:39:48 I wrote: > I have a server with two printers connected, set up using the cups Web > page and operating properly. Now I want to send print jobs to them from > my workstation, which is on the same network, and with the same version > of cups: 1.3.9-r1. One of the printers is an HP Deskjet D4260, so I also > have hplip version 2.8.6b installed on both machines. I can connect > either printer to either machine and print locally without any problems. > > However, I cannot get anything to print over the network. If, on the > workstation, I declare the network laser printer and connect to it, all > appears to work until I send a print job to it; the job sits in the lp > queue locally, and when I next look at the status of the printer it > says "Destination printer does not exist!" > > If I try to set up the Deskjet as a remote printer in the local cups > server, I get "Filter "foomatic-rip" for printer "HP_Deskjet_D4260" not > available: No such file or directory". > > I don't know what to try next. Anyone any idea here?
Well, I don't know what I did differently, but once again I zapped the server root partition, recovered it from a known good, minimal backup, brought it up to date and set cups up again. Now when I go to a client box and run the KDE printer setup utility, it shows the printers and even allows me to configure them. I don't touch the cups server on the client, other than to point /etc/cups/client.conf to the server. There are still some oddities, but those can wait now. Thanks to all for their help. -- Rgds Peter
