[cups.general] cant print

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Michael W. Holdeman <lists at ptfd.org> wrote (Friday 23 June 2006 22:49):

> I have a linux lan at the office, I have one cups server working fine, but
> now am trying to get my laptop to run as a server also, so when I am at my
> second office it will pick up the printers there.

It's the CUPS client that picks up printers via CUPS browsing. A client
that has a local CUPS daemon running, though.  ;-)

> I can't seem to get it 
> to work. And teh server just dies, or I can't kill it. localhost:631
> either says not found 404, or denied.
> 
> Kprinter wilkl send a test page but the printer never gets it. The printer
> is an HP3600N, set at 192.168.14.191
> 
> 
> 
> error log is below the config file.


[....]
> Allow From 192.168.14.0/192.168.14.254

Are you sure this is the correct notation? (At least it is very unusual
for a 192.168.* network...)

What is the output of the "ifconfig" command on your server?

[....]
> Listen *:631
> Listen *:9100

Are you sure you need + want this? (Shouldn't do any harm regarding
your problem, though)
 

[....]
> BrowseAddress 192.168.255.255

Are you sure this is the valid broadcast address for your LAN?

[....]
> BrowseDeny address
> BrowseAllow address @LOCAL
> BrowseAllow address 192.168.14.0/192.168.14.254

This is wrong! The "address" string has no place in these lines.

Again: are you sure this "192.168.14.0/192.168.14.254" are the actual
address/netmask you want/need?


[....]
> ************************************************************************************************
> error log.


[....]
> D [23/Jun/2006:15:24:01 -0400] [Job 14] 
> envp[21]="DEVICE_URI=ipp://fcoffice.ptfd.org:631/printers/hp3600"

What is the IP address of host "fcoffice.ptfd.org"? What is the result
of running "ifconfig" there?

> D [23/Jun/2006:15:24:01 -0400] [Job 14] envp[22]="PRINTER=hp3600"
> I [23/Jun/2006:15:24:01 -0400] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp (PID 
> 18950) for job 14.
> D [23/Jun/2006:15:24:01 -0400] Discarding unused job-state event...
> D [23/Jun/2006:15:24:01 -0400] [Job 14] /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp: No such file or directory
> E [23/Jun/2006:15:24:01 -0400] PID 18950 (/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp) stopped with status 22!

Here is your main problem for now!! (Note, that the "E" at the 
beginning of such a line means "Error")

What is the output of 

  "ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp"
  "ls -l /usr/lib/cups/backend/*"
 
? Does the "ipp" backend exist? Is it executable?


Cheers,
Kurt