Help! CUPS in Kubuntu is driving me crazy

[Piero Ottuzzi]

Hi there,

now I'm in front of my PC and I can be more precise:
- K -> System Settings -> Printers
- Print Manager -> Configure Manager... -> CUPS Server
- Insert 'Server Information' of your remote CUPS server
- Press OK ;)
- Print Manager -> Initialize Manage/View

Now in the lower-right angle (unser 'Print system currently used') should 
appear your remote CUPS Server/Port.

Hope this help.
Bye
Piero


Alle 09:52, giovedì 24 agosto 2006, Piero Ottuzzi ha scritto:
> 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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