"no system default destination" as user, but fine as root.

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue May 29 06:09:54 PDT 2007


Philipp Burath wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are running a cups 1.2.10 server on RHEL 3.0 box and the clients run cups-1.1.17-13.3.37 also on RHELWS 3.0 boxes.
> 
> As root on the server I have set the default printer, using lpadmin (system wide default)
> 
> [root at petcelx05 root]# lpstat -s
> system default destination: PER0023
> 
> however, when I do this as a normal user on the server, I get:
> lpstat: error - PRINTER environment variable names non-existent destination "hp4600dn"!
> 
> The hp4600dn printer was one that I had deleted from the system previously.
> 
> On our clients the story is similar:
> [root at per-3zt4k1s cups]# lpstat -s
> system default destination: PER0023
> 
> As user:
> per-3zt4k1s:/home/buratp> lpstat -s
> no system default destination
> 
> Due to the fact that the default printer is not set, I get the following message when trying to print to the default printer with lpr:
> lpr: error - no default destination available.
> 
> Is this because the server isn't propogating the default printer to the clients, as they are different versions of cups??
> 
> Any Ideas on how I can fix this?

Don't set the PRINTER environment variable?

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