socket doesnt exist, cannot create a printer

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Tue Aug 5 08:01:50 PDT 2008


ed smith wrote:
>>Binaries for Cups 1.1.21 was recently installed on a solaris 10 server. Config of cups has been assigned to me. I cant get sockets to work.
>>
>>root at usclsmcq003/>  lpadmin -p plyadm3 -v socket://172.16.1.34:9100  -P plyadm3.ppd
>>UX:lpadmin: ERROR: "socket://172.16.1.34:9100" doesn't exist.
>>           TO FIX: Create the file, special device, or FIFO
>>                   for the -v option before running this
>>                   command.
>>root at usclsmcq003/>
>>
>>I also tried ipp just for the insight. no dice.
>>
>>root at usclsmcq003/>
>>root at usclsmcq003/>  lpadmin -p plyadm3 -v ipp://172.16.1.34:9100  -P plyadm3.ppd
>>UX:lpadmin: ERROR: "ipp://172.16.1.34:9100" doesn't exist.
>>           TO FIX: Create the file, special device, or FIFO
>>                   for the -v option before running this
>>                   command.
>>
>>There is a firewall between the server and the printers, but port 9100 is open both dirs, and I have had the firewall people monitor the FW when I attempt to create the printer and they do not see an attempt to trespass. I am wondering if cups ever really took hold of this server.
>>cupsd and lpsched are up. what did I forget? haven't encounterd this before. what did I miss? I am under extreme deadline in mfg environment. help!
>>Thanks!
>>Ed Smith
> 
> 
> PS Forgot to include lpinfo -v
> root at usclsmcq003/opt/sfw/cups/sbin> ./lpinfo -v
> network socket
> network http
> network ipp
> network lpd
> serial serial:/dev/cua/a?baud=115200
> direct usb:/dev/usb/printer0
> direct usb:/dev/usb/printer1
> direct usb:/dev/usb/printer2
> direct usb:/dev/usb/printer3
> direct usb:/dev/usb/printer4
> direct usb:/dev/usb/printer5
> direct usb:/dev/usb/printer6
> direct usb:/dev/usb/printer7
> 
> Thanks
> Ed Smith
> 
>>
> 

I suspect your CUPS has been installed in a non-standard
location (presumable /usr/local/...), and you by accident
executed the native Solaris lpadmin command which expects
a special device (something like /dev/...) as the value
for the -v option but a device-uri.

Helge


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