User Unable to Print

Ken martig at zgi.com
Thu Sep 10 07:22:46 PDT 2009


>
> Hello,
>
> On Sep 9 08:12 Ken wrote (shortened):
> > I have a cups server configured on a SUSE Linux machine
> > successfully serving several SUSE and Redhat clients.
> > One user on a SUSE client cannot print.
> > If I try to run "lpstat -a" as that user I get the message
> > "lpstat: Unable to connect to server".
> > Other standard users on the system have no problem ...
>
> Does it work to run "lpstat -h server -a" as that user
> where server is either you server's name or its IP?
>
> If yes, I assume somewhere for this user there is
> another CUPS server specified.
> The usual suspects in this case are
> the CUPS_SERVER environment variable or
> a ServerName line in ~/.cupsrc or since CUPS 1.2
> in ~/.cups/client.conf compare
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-1.2/ref-client-conf.html
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner
> --
> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany
> AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex
>
The user did have a .cupsrc file in his home directory.  I deleted it and all is good.  Thank you for your help in resolving this.

Kind regards,
Ken




More information about the cups mailing list