[cups.general] No Printing To a Remote LPD server

[Klaus Singvogel]

Jochen Roedenbeck wrote:
> I have a problem printing to a remote LPD server from a newly installed
> Suse Linux 9.2 system with CUPS. The remote system is an very old
> computer running an ancient Linux version. But it works and it accepts
> print job. Nevertheless CUPS does not print there. The log says (in log
> level debug) that the connection ist opened and some command is sent (7
> bytes). Waiting for the answer results in an error. So the queue
> becomes disabled and nothing is printed. I thought, there may be some
> kind of timeout, but I did not find any option to change.
> 
> Some hints?

Search for some configuration option like "accept from unprivileged
port" at your ancient Linux version. Reason: CUPS under SUSE LINUX 9.2
runs as user "lp" (as default) and therefore cannot grab an
privileged port to sent to the lpd queue.

Regards,
	Klaus.
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