Help! CUPS in Kubuntu is driving me crazy

[Piero Ottuzzi]

Hi,

I have almost the same configuration and I encountered your same problem (anf also found a fix ;)).
Just don't use that wizard but (recalling from memory as I'm actually not on my Kubuntu) connect directly to remote cups server (if I remeber correctly is the third or fourth menu in K | Settings | Printers) and then you'll see your remote printer. In lower-right corner of the K | Settings | Printers you should not read localhost but 192.168.0.1.
If you cannot get it working I will be more precise tomorrow morning (CEST) when I'll be in front of my PC.

Hope this help.
Bye
Piero

> Here's the setup:
> 
> Brother HL-1040 printer physically connected to a Mdv 2006 system running CUPS.
> 
> The printer is visible and works fine from:
> 
> 1. The system to which it is attached
> 2. Windows systems on the network
> 3. An old Mandrake 9.2 system
> 4. A new 64-bit Mdv 2006 system (actually, the same system on which
> I;m running Kubuntu, but booted into a different OS)
> 
> I have just spent three hours trying to get Kubuntu to do something
> sensible, and am totally failing :-(
> 
> I'm still trying to get my head around the fact that Kubuntu won't let
> me log in as root and get administrative tasks done easily, but I
> don't think that this is the cause of these problems.
> 
> So I found a "printers" menu item in K | Settings | Printers.
> 
> 1. Add Printer
> 2. Click "Remote CUPS Server"
> 3. Leave on "anonymous"
> 4. Host: 192.168.0.1
>   This finds the printer (BROTHEHL1040) OK...
> 
> 5. I seem to need to find a driver at this point (not sure why; the
> Mdv 2006 system seemed to find the printer and install everything
> automatically); the other systema are all old systems that I don't
> recall the details of any more).
> 6. Select BROTHER hl7x0 (which is the driver on the machine to which
> the printer is attached, and also the driver on the 64-but Mdv system)
> 7. Print "Test" -- I'm not sure what is supposed to print, but what
> actually prints is a single sheet that says:
> 
> -12345X at PJL
> @PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = HBP
> @L at G
> 
> The fact that _something_ prints indicates that I must be close, but I
> have not been able to get past this point :-(
> 
> This is a showstopper for me; if I can't get the printer working
> properly, I'll have to go back to Mdv -- after having decided that I
> was switching because so many other things didn't work in Mdv, but do
> work in Kubuntu; but none of those things is as fundamental as
> printing.
> 
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