Steve Kowalik wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:18:45 +1000, Leslie Katz uttered
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man -t lpadmin | lpr
Status Information:
sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory
Make sure the remote host supports the LPD protocol and accepts
connections from this host and from non-privileged (>1023) ports
I think this is your problem. That looks like lpr is trying to talk to
the local LPD. I'm not sure about Damn Small Linux at all, but on
Debian/Ubuntu, there is a cupsys-bsd package which gives you a lpr
that talks to CUPS instead of LPD.
Cheers,
Thanks for your reply, Steve. I know now that I must've got my printer
working in Fedora more by good luck than good management. I'd followed
the instructions in chapter 14 of Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook,
"Printing with CUPS", which made me think that it was as simple as
installing CUPS and then one more file only, a .ppd appropriate to the
printer. Obviously, more can be involved, as I'm now realising.
Can I also, in this post, thank Scott Ragen for his earlier reply to my
original post. It occurred to me today that I hadn't seen the digest
which had included my own original post, so I browsed the list and
found, not only my original post, but also Scott's reply to it. I'm
trying to adopt his advice about the error log, but am having some
difficulty which may be specific to DSL.
Thanks again,
Leslie
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