I have trouble printing to "remote" server.

[Jean-David Beyer]

Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> I have two machines. The client runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. The 
> server runs Fedora Core 2.
> 
> I set up the server using the Fedora print configuration tool, and 
> everything on that machine seems to work. From the print configuration
>  tool, I can select "Test" and print the CUPS test pattern, the 
> PostScript test pattern, and the ASCII test. From the shell, I can
> print ASCII files by doing lpr filename and, IIRC, I can print html
> pages from the Mozilla browser.
> 
> But from the client, things are not so good. From the print 
> configuration tool (looks almost the same as the server's), I can also
>  print all those test patterns, but from the shell and other tools 
> nothing normal works.
> 
> E.g., if I do the following, that is what I get:
> 
> # lpr brutab lpr: error - no default destination available.
> 
> (Doesn't matter if I am root or not.)
> 
> Now if I do lpr -P lp brutab, it prints ASCII just fine. Similarly for
>  postscript files.
> 
After a few days of batting my head against a wall, I removed cups:
  rpm -e cups... redhat-lsb... gimp-print-cups ... ... ...
and reinstalled it from disk on the theory that I probably messed up a
configuration file somewhere. (lpr is part of cups package, in Red Hat
anyway). Then I got the current versions by letting up2date run install
the latest versions.

Now that works, so to speak.

Now I cannot print at all from the client, but lpr and everything else
knows the remote target.

When I try to test from the print configuration tool on the client, it
complains that the printer is busy. If I look at the server, it says stuff
like:

192.168.1.251 - - [15/Oct/2004:13:21:57 -0400] "POST /printers/queue1
HTTP/1.1" 403 0
192.168.1.251 - - [15/Oct/2004:13:22:07 -0400] "POST /printers/queue1
HTTP/1.1" 403 0
192.168.1.251 - - [15/Oct/2004:13:22:17 -0400] "POST /printers/queue1
HTTP/1.1" 403 0
192.168.1.251 - - [15/Oct/2004:13:22:27 -0400] "POST /printers/queue1
HTTP/1.1" 403 0

so the machines talk to one another. The client is sending a message every
ten seconds or so, and I suppose either the server or the client is not
hearing what it expects.

Is my server configured wrongly or is the client. In both cases, I used
the printer configuration tool from Red Hat, and I am somewhat familiar
with it as I got it to work when the server was running RHL 7.3 with no
trouble.

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