printing problems

[Jim Kronebusch]

Sorry, bad advice.  From reading other posts I see this is a local printer on a usb port
of the client.  Forget my nonsense :-)

Jim

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:56:36 -0500, Jim Kronebusch wrote
> > Now when I try to print a test page from CUPS it says that it has
> > completed the print job. But nothing has printed. The printer is
> > plugged in and the ip address / mac addresses are right.
> > Update: Now I am getting the same network host is busy message.
> > 
> > Here is my lts.conf file.
> > 
> > [default]
> >     SOUND=True
> >     LOCALDEV=True
> >     NBD_SWAP=True
> >     SYSLOG=server
> > [00:50:8b:49:72:dc]
> > #[ws043]
> >   SOUND=True
> >     LOCALDEV=True
> >     NBD_SWAP=True
> >     SYSLOG=server
> > PRINTER_0_DEVICE=U
> > PRINTER_0_TYPE=/dev/usblp0
> 
> I guess I don't understand why you have had to assign this in lts.conf.  
> Doesn't your lts.conf setup indicate that the printer is connected to terminal 
> ws043 via a local usb port?  From the description of your printer you are 
> trying to print over the network via IP address.  I would think this would 
> mean that as long as your server has the networked printer installed and set 
> as default, you would not need any configuration in lts.conf for the printer.
> 
> All our printers here are setup to print via IP address.  I simply open
> System->Administration->Printing->New Printer->Check local or Detected Printer-
> >Then under the radio button for "Use a detected Printer" all of my IP based 
> printers just show up and I select them for the list.  As long as the new 
> printer is set for default, then it will automatically be the default for all 
> my clients.  I have however assigned permanent IP's to all my clients, and 
> then set up scripts to set default printers on login.  So all machines in 
> certain labs automatically default to the printer located in that lab.
> 
> Can you print to the printer from the server?  I would troubleshoot there, 
> once that works then move to a client.
> 
> Jim
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Jim Kronebusch
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