[cups.general] Centralized Server Problem

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Wed Jun 13 06:08:03 PDT 2007


Caspar Siebeneicher wrote:
> Sorry, no real change. Lets say my clients name is foo. I added the printer (lets say foopr) on the server as follows
> 
> lpadmin -p foopr -E -v lpd://foo/lp -P /usr/share/ppd/foopr.ppd
> 
> When i try to print it says 
> 
> "Network host 'foo' is busy, down, or unreachable; will retry in 30
> seconds..."
> 
> in the webUI as in the error_log. What am I missing? Is there a client setting to be adjusted (CUPS on client, too)? If theres a specific piece of manual I need to read please point me to it, I myself cant find anything useful for solving my problem in the documentation (thats why I started posting here).
> 
> And please say if what I want 
> 
> (filters are only installed on one machine (server), other machines can have local printers and pass the jobs to the server for filtering)
> 
> is impossible to do with CUPS.
> 

Try
	lpd://foo/lp?reserve=yes
as device-URI, as I suspect your client hosts
require the lpd protocol to use one of the
reserved ports between 721 and 732, and make sure the backend
is running as root.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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