Subject: Re: CUPS, RH8.0 and printers
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 11:09:38 AKDT
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 10:38, Peter Q. Olsson wrote:
>
> Hello all-
>
> We have several new boxes that we have loaded with RH 8.0. We are experiencing
> great difficulty in getting these 8.0 boxes to see our HP network printers.
> Using the RH print-switch utility, we stopped LPRng, then did a CUPS restart.
> (For some reason LPRng is still the default print deamon for RH 8.0) We added
> printers using the CUPS web interface. We CAN print test pages from the CUPS web
> interface (so we know they are communicating via ethernet), but alas, we cannot
> print from the command line using lpr. The error that results is along the lines
> of:
>
> "cannot connect to printer@localhost"
>
> LPRng's lpr with the printer set up using RH's printconf utility did not work
> either, giving a message
>
> "cannot bind to lpd port 515 on lpd restart"
>
>
>
> Anybody out there with wisdom that they would like to impart on this issue?
>
> PQO
Not sure if this helps.
http://printing.sourceforge.net/new_html/white-paper.php
>
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