Help with printing from Windows

st.graf st.graf at fz-juelich.de
Thu Mar 23 07:23:40 PST 2006


John Alexander wrote:
> I need help printing from a Windows XP machine to a CUPS enabled server. I have a Debian "Sarge" machine I'm trying to use as a print server, with an HP PSC 500 printer attached. I have successfully configured the printer locally on the server, and can print a test page.
> 
> I have configured a generic postscript network printer (http: protocol) on my XP box and pointed it to the PSC 500 on the server. When I try to print a test page from the XP machine I get no output to the printer. I do get a postscript file in /var/spool/cups.
> 
> Here is my cupsd.conf:
> 
> AccessLog /dev/null
> DefaultCharset notused
> LogLevel info
> Printcap /var/run/cups/printcap
> <Location />
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> Allow From 192.168.1.*
> </Location>
> <Location /jobs>
> AuthType Basic
> AuthClass User
> </Location>
> <Location /admin>
> AuthType Basic
> AuthClass System
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> </Location>
> 
> 
> Note:  I changed the access log to /dev/null because CUPS seems to be spewing ACCESS messages about every 5 seconds - very annoying. Similar messages appear in error_log if I use "LogLevel debug". Any help is much appreciated!
> 

Hi!

What is about the log entries in /var/log/cups.* ? In 
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf set LogLevel to debug/debug2.


Do You know the CupsClient-Software? 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cupsclient/
In the moment it is my most favorite tool to install CUPS-printer on 
Windows XP.


Stephan




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