[cups.general] Does CUPS ever work out of the box?

[Andrew McCall]

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I use CUPS on over 20 Solaris and Linux servers - some of them use binary
packages or RPM's and others use custom builds (although I am moving them
all over to custom builds now) - all of them worked "out of the box".

In fact, on Solaris I know that CUPS will work with just /configure && make
&& make install && cupsd so long as you have the gcc package installed form
SunFreeware.

I have never had a problem with CUPS, other than not being able to fully
understand how to use it to its maximum potential - but that's more my fault
than CUPS, although some sample implementations for large organisations in
the documents would be great!

Thanks,

Andrew McCall
Senior Technical Officer (Server)
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I.C.T. & Printing
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan S. [mailto:candid at hotmail.com] 
Sent: 01 December 2004 05:03
To: cups at easysw.com
Subject: [cups.general] Does CUPS ever work out of the box?

Greetings.

I've posted several earlier CUPS related problems, with no real solution
except to "buy the professional version that still is no guarantee that it
will work."  My answer is that if I wanted to pay for something that doesn't
work, I'd buy MS(c) Windows(tm).

Just another rant:  I've never been able to get CUPS to work "out of the
box."  I've finally broken down and purchased SuSE 9.2pro and left Slackware
for now, and have tried two printers...one a brand new color laser and one a
really old monochrome laser.  Still, no printing with CUPS straight out of
the box.  I've used the correct ppd's, everything appears to be set up
correctly with a generic install, and still nothing.  Yes, I've used
different printer cables.

Now I'm going to have to do my two-week troubleshoot dance that is never the
same way twice...even on the same machine with the same printer and same
software...I've finally gotten it rigged at work on an old machine, but I
have to reload cupsd manually after every restart...luckily Linux doesn't
need many...and after removing lprng and installing CUPS from source...not a
new version, mind you, but several iterations old.

This is the only problem that persists in my foray into Linux.  Everything
else works, eventually, but not this.  I'm never going to be able to put
Linux into production with constant printing nightmares or crippled
solutions.  Maybe it was ok when the only thing being printed was ASCII, but
those days are no more.  I would hate to have to use a Windows(tm) box as a
print server for my Linux machines, but I'm almost there.

Anyway, not that anyone cares or should, but I wouldn't mind paying for a
real solution, and I'd bet there are a lot of others out there that wouldn't
mind either.

Best regards.

NS
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