Upgrade to Breezy can no longer network print

Charles Yao yaocharlesc at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 09:19:35 UTC 2005


On 11/12/05, David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 16:29 +0800, Charles Yao wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I upgraded to Breezy a few weeks back and ever since them my network
> > printer refuse to work. The printer attached to the PC serving as a
> > print server works. However all the other pcs cannot print on it. Some
> > of the pcs simply cannot detect the printer while the rest just says
> > "cups server could not be contacted". I check all the pcs and cupsys
> > is oinstalled in all of them. When i was installing using hoary
> > everything was autodetected. I dont know what happened. It would seem
> > that breezy is inferior to hoary considering all the bugs in ti.
>
> I don't think Ubuntu has ever worked out of the box as a network server
> as, for security, it only listens to the localhost by default. Perhaps,
> during the upgrade, you let it overwrite the config file?
>
> Try editing /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and look for lines beginning Listen and
> <Location /> and change them as necessary to suit your network.
>
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> David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>
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David,

I just checked synaptic and cupsd is not there. should this be the case?

Charles
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