"Unable to load a valid driver"

[Chris Howells]

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Hi Michael & Kurt,

On Monday 28 October 2002 9:54 am, Michael Goffioul wrote:

Thanks for the responses. Sorry for the delay in replying. *grmbl*

> Ok, this makes things clearer. If you look at these log entries
> you'll notice that some requests end up with error code 403, that is
> "Forbidden access". The server refuses the connection. If you look
> more closely, you'll see that this happens when the connection
> comes from gandalf (all requests from localhost succeed). I'm pretty
> sure gandalf is localhost, but the way the connection is established
> is different.
> Conclusion: I'm pretty sure this is this recurrent configuration
> problem, where the cups.conf file contains access restrictions
> on some standard resources, such that all connections are refused
> except those from localhost (which IMO is quite illogical in a
> network environment).

Aha. Very close guess, but not quite right. In the end it turned out that=20
/etc/hosts was misconfigured.

It said simply:

127.0.0.1 localhost

I've changed it to:

127.0.0.1 localhost gandalf

=2E.. and it works perfectly now :) Thanks.

Unfortunately the PPD doesn't seem to be as good as the one I had for my da=
d's=20
old HP DJ 890C, which had options rather like the windows driver (Draft,=20
Normal, Best, and different paper types). This one just has a few=20
combinations of DPIs and paper types, so it's difficult to find the most=20
suitable one. I wonder how easy it is to write my own PPD...

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
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