SUSE 9.0 and networked printer

[Helge Blischke]

Ian Leonard wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I have a SUSE 9.0 system connected to a Fedora Core 2 box with an Epson printer.
> 
> I use YAST to setup a CUPS client. All appears to be well and if I when I try to print, it works. However after a reboot I can't print - I get the error:
> 
> lp: error - scheduler not responding!
> 
> Why?
> 
> I then tried to configure cups via the web page. Initially I could get past the password authentication. On SUSE cups runs as the user lp. I tried to set a cups password for it, but eventually had to change the user to root. Now I get the main page up but any attempt to use one of the options results in a connection refused message.
> 
> Any advice would be gratefully received. Thanks.

You should call the runlevel editor from YAST and mark the CUPS
scheduler to be
started in levels 2, 3, and 5.

Helge

PS: Surely you may do this "by hand" using the usual command line tools
and editors.
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