SUSE 9.0 and networked printer

Helge Blischke H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
Tue Jul 20 05:19:11 PDT 2004


Ian Leonard wrote:
> 
> Helge Blischke wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Helge, thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it did not cure the problem. cupsd is running.
> 
> I had a look through the cups source. This error appears to be due to having no printers configured. Since this is a client only install, at no point was I asked what the actual printer type was. Could that be something to do with it?

Don't know - I've several boxes running with a client-olny CUPS
configuration (i.e.
without locally configured printers), but those are Solaris boxes.
Perhaps you 
ask this question to the SuSE folks.

Helge


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