[brother mfc420cn] Re: can't locate cups server

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sun, 10/26/08, Al Black <al-black at telus.net> wrote:

> From: Al Black <al-black at telus.net>
> Subject: Re: [brother mfc420cn] Re: can't locate cups server
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 12:18 AM
> On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 20:59 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> > On 10/24/2008 11:26 PM, Al Black wrote:
> 
> > I'm waiting for Leonard to join in as he: 1) has a
> 64bit system, and 2)
> > just installed a brand new Brother printer in Hardy...
> hence the
> > modification of the Subject header.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> al
> 
Waiting may be all in vain, however.  I did just install a Brother MFC-490CW but didn't have trouble accessing CUPS server, so can't help there. AFA installing the printer, I just followed the instructions Brother had on their site for Linux 64 bit printer setup at:

http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/before.html
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_prn.html#MFC-490CW
(substitute your model no.)
http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us_ot/en/faq/faq_top.html?reg=us&c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=mfc490cw_all(again your model no.)
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/faq_prn.html
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/download_scn.html
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/instruction_scn1a.html
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/instruction_scn3.html
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/instruction_scn1c.html#9

If non of the above help to get you started then this should do the trick as Brother has the greatest Linux support ever and replies promptly:

https://secure6.brother.co.jp/LinuxContactUs/contact/Linuxform.html

Just tell them exactly what the problem your having is and I'll bet they will reply with just what you need to do.
Hope this helps. I followed the pre-install procedure then loaded the driver(s) and everything just worked. My biggest concern was deciding just what pre-installs I needed to do for my model and ended up doing them all for Ubuntu(didn't hurt) and is also what I wrote Brother about.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net