Hi all, My computer has an HP4050 hooked to its parallel port. Most printers in the house run Mandriva 2006 and access my printer via the network. I upgraded my computer to Mandriva 2007, and all of a sudden none of the other computers can print to my printer. It (in all its various configurations such as lp, lp_dark, lp_duplex etc) shows up on all the other Mandriva machines, but when you print to it on those printers it "vanishes into thin air". Nothing prints on my printer, and the lpq -P lp_dark command says nothing's queued on their computer or on mine. I can't figure out what happened to the print job. The same print job works perfectly if I sftp the file to my computer and then print it from my computer.
The cupsd daemon is running on all the computers, and lp_dark (and the others) show up at http://localhost:631 on all the computers. This seemed to start when I upgraded my computer from Mandriva 2006 to Mandriva 2007. What are some of the steps I'd take to troubleshoot this problem? My wife and kids have started a fire under a 1000 gallon pot, and I'm scared I'll get boiled if I don't get the family's printers printing. Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting * Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore http://www.troubleshooters.com/utp/tcourses.htm -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
