cupsd not responding

Wade Klaver archeron at archeron.ca
Fri Feb 2 18:29:16 PST 2007


> Hello folks,
>   I am running cups on a FreeBSD 6.1 box.  I am attempting to use cups with the SMB backend to print to a XP shared printer.
>   Cups is running.  I can get the front page of the built in web server running on port 631.  The problem is, when I click "Add Printer", the browser churns away indefinitely. It is not just the web interface.  If I attempt to retrieve available drivers with lpinfo -m, same thing... it just sits there until such time as I hit ctrl-c.
>   Does anyone know what might be going on?  If any more information is required, please let me know.
>
> Preemptive thanks.
>  -Wade

Never mind.  Typical... fight with something for two days and find the answer within an hour of posting a question.
For future reference, the FreeBSD port install the cups bin dir in /usr/local/libexec/cups, but the config file that comes with it specifies /usr/lib/cups.

Cheers folks.
 -Wade




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