[cups.general] lpr through printserver fails in 1 out of 30

[Michael Sweet]

[Apologies for the delay in responding...]

On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Rebecca Simmons wrote:
> Sorry, should have said... CUPS on clients is 1.3.1, cups on printserver is 1.4.2, OS on clients is 10.5.8, OS on printserver is 10.6.7
> 
> I set up a second 10.6.7 server as a printserver for just the problem printer and it has exactly the same problem as the real printserver. If the print queue is set up through the system preferences GUI then default (bonjour) printing works but LPD printing doesn't.
> 
> I've tried with the printserver address as a DNS lookup "printserver.gns" and also plugged in as its direct ip 192.168.164.16 but that makes no difference.
> 
> I've tried using a client that is OS 10.6.7 running cups 1.4.6 and the problem persists.

Look in the system.log on the server for failures. Either there is a problem with the share name or a sporadic network issue.

That said, I don't recommend using a legacy protocol like LPD when you are printing from a CUPS client.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair

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