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

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Tue Feb 22 03:53:05 PST 2005


Klaus Singvogel wrote:
> 
> 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.

.... or set the RunAsUser directive in your cupsd.conf to No, if you
are not that paranoid about privileged users.

Helge

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