CUPS webface doesn't allow parallel port

[Helge Blischke]

StevenFriedrich at InsightBB.com wrote:
> 
> I originally installed CUPS about a year ago.  It was version 1.1.18.  I have since upgraded to 1.1.20.
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE.
> 
> When I installed 1.1.18, I noticed a quirk that I couldn't add a parallel printer unless it was turned on when the system booted.
> 
> But under 1.1.20, it won't let me specify a parallel URI at all. On FreeBSD, /dev/lpt0 is the first parallel port (I also made a hard link to lp, to no avail).
> 
> How is CUPS determining that a parallel port is a valid choice?
> 
> I should mention that I hand edit printers.conf and my printer does work.

If you just do
	$libdir/backend/parallel
(where $libdir is CUPS' lib directory, usually /usr/lib/cups),
what does it tell then?

If it remains silent, it thinks there is no parallel interface. Try this
with
(at least one) parallel printer(s) on and all parallel printers off.


Helge

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