Printer disabled error when defining printer with PPD file

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Fri Sep 7 07:41:30 PDT 2007


matheeq wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been trying to define and configure a HP Laser Jet 4250 network printer on AIX 5.2 system with a downloaded driver(PPD file) using CUPS.
> 
> I've managed to check that samba and cups are installed and running and
> I define the printer with the following command:
> asroot /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p printername -v smb://'corpdom\userid':password at servername/printer -P ppddriverfileandpath –E
> 
> The printer gets define but when I do a getstat -p I can see that the printer gets disabled and shows the message:
> 
> Filter "foomatic-rip" for printer "laser" not available: A file or direc
> tory in the path name does not exist
> 
> I also see another error:
> Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...ERROR: SMB t
> ree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> 
> Could anyone help me to overcome this issue?

Get the vendor-supplied PPD file and not the Foomatic PPD file
(which requires its own filter...)

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Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
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