(SOLVED) Re: Client Printing to Solaris Cups Server

Dan Hughes dhughes at umaryland.edu
Thu Sep 23 12:22:05 PDT 2010


> Greetings.
>
> I've set up my Solaris CUPS server and all was working well until an issue came up that I can't solve on my own.
>
> First the clients run Sungard Banner and the printing is simply an straight lp command, though with a lot of options (e.g. "landscape"). The clients are Solaris 10 containers.
>
> When I add the printer to the client as lpd: "lpset -a printer-uri-supported=lpd://server/printers/M2727 M2727" the printing works but I lose the options, so it just prints normally.
>
> Now if I add the printer through ipp: "lpadmin -p M2727 -s ipp://server/printers/M2727" the printouts are formatted correctly.
>
> Here's the problem, I can add through IPP on most Solaris 10 boxes, on several (including the most critical one) when I add IPP and go to print I get the error:
>
> lp -d M2727 /etc/hosts
> Failed to contact service for foo: not-found


 Actually, I just fixed the problem. I trussed the the lp command on one box where IPP worked and on one where it didn't. After analyzing the output I discovered that on the boxes where IPP didn't work I was missing an IPP library file. Why? - Well there is another conundrum...




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