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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