Problem printing to a remote host

[Walt Pennington]

The San Diego Linux Users Group did an installation at a San Diego
Middle School and had a similar problem and we found that the the CUPS
configuration file had the wrong IP address of the printers.

We installed Mandrake 9 on 20 computers, and everything worked except
the printing.  The HP 4100 and HP 4500 printers would show in the list
of available printers, but we could not get anything to print.  After
much research we found that CUPS had the right printer with the wrong IP
address.  We tried to use the GUI to remove, but the rejected the GUI
configurations.  Finally we went to the configuration file, deleted the
existing printers, and manually added the correct printers and IP
addresses.  

The person that found and fixed the problem is Chris and he can be
contacted at moody underscore jc at hotmail dot com

Walt




On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 13:43, Joe Fitzmyer wrote:
> Last week I had 3 desktop machines running Mandrake 8.1 in my office. I
> decided to increase that number to 5  and then upgrade everybody to Mandrake
> 9. The new installs went fine except for configuring printing.
> 
> We print to a remote queue on an IBM 43P and I have been unable to get any
> of the Mandrake 9 machines to produce a test page. The lone 8.1 machine
> works fine and as of this moment the only way the other machines can print
> is via CUPS, sending output thru the 8.1 box.
> 
> I have had very inconsistent responses from Mandrake Control Center, KDE's
> Control Center and CUPS web based administration (i.e.
> http://localhost:631).
> 
> Mandrake Control Center (Printerdrake) only allows a CUPS installation and
> reports the error "Unable to create printer. Error message received from
> manager: Unsupported backend: lpd."
> 
> Control Center has given me a number of different errors at different times.
> Trying to set up via LPR/LPRng has given me at various times "lpr: unable to
> print file: execution failed client_error_not_found" and unable to start
> kdeprintd. Setting up using CUPS gets "unable to  find postscript driver".
> 
> Using CUPS web based administration returns "Remote host did not accept
> control file (56)" and no output.
> 
> I find this problem most strange. Installing remote LPR printing under
> Mandrake 8.1 and KDE 2.2 was very simple and worked flawlessly. 
> What's up under 9.0 and KDE 3.0? Attached is a portion of my /var/log/cups/error_log.
> I'd appreciate any help at all.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Joe Fitzmyer