Having trouble adding printers on my Solaris system
Mun
Mun.Johl at Emulex.Com
Wed Apr 4 15:58:26 PDT 2007
Hi. My apologies for the long post.
I need to add a printer to my SPARC/Solaris 8 workstation
and have run into trouble. I first tried to use Solaris'
Printer Manager to add the printer. Even though it appeared
as if the printer was added, I couldn't print to it.
I then decided to install CUPS. I installed version 1.3svn
and proceeded to install one of my company's Canon iR C3220
printers, for which I have a PPD file.
The configuration is thus:
Device: AppSocket/HP JetDirect
Device URI: socket://color:Print
When I select "Print Test Page", the job gets queued but
never exits the "processing" state.
lpq shows the job in the queue, I don't see any errors, yet
that's as far as I get. I eventually just have to cancel
the job.
I even tried adding my username to the Allowed Users list;
again, no difference.
If I try to use something like a2ps to send something to
color:Print, I get the following output:
===================================================
% a2ps grR.out
[grR.out (plain): 21 pages on 11 sheets]
lp: The printer or class was not found.
[Total: 21 pages on 11 sheets] sent to the printer `color:Print'
[446 lines wrapped]
===================================================
I saw the lp message, yet I didn't think specifying a class
was required.
I went ahead and created a class and put the installed
printer into the class. However, everything seemed to break
at that point. Access attempts to any link under
localhost:631 now result in browser errors.
Furthermore, a2ps now results in the following error:
===================================================
% a2ps grR.out
[grR.out (plain): 21 pages on 11 sheets]
lp: Connection refused
[Total: 21 pages on 11 sheets] sent to the printer `color:Print'
[446 lines wrapped]
===================================================
Perhaps now there is a permission error somewhere? I tried
pulling up a browser as root, but that behaves the same way.
Any assistance would be very much appreciated.
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