network printer via lpd

coandrei coandrei at gmail.com
Sat Feb 26 09:35:16 PST 2011


Hi guys,

I use Ubuntu 10.10 and I am trying to print my documents to a network printer that has its own ip address. However, I have not been successful so far.

Getting a complete list of supported devices by running:
lpinfo -v

My printer is found:
network lpd://printer_ip_address/lp

Adding the printer:
lpadmin -p Sharp-MX-M550U-ps -E -v lpd://printer_ip_address/lp -m Sharp-MX-M550U-ps.ppd

In the error_log I get this:
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: 15 from localhost (Domain)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer 1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer ipp://localhost/printers/Sharp-MX-M550U-ps
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdIsAuthorized: username=""
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Returning HTTP Unauthorized for CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer (ipp://localhost/printers/Sharp-MX-M550U-ps) from localhost
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSendHeader: 15 WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="CUPS", trc="y"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 WAITING Closing on EOF
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdCloseClient: 15
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Not busy
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: 15 from localhost (Domain)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: 16 from localhost (Domain)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 WAITING Closing on EOF
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdCloseClient: 15
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 16 POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as myusername using PeerCred
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 16 1.1 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer 1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer ipp://localhost/printers/Sharp-MX-M550U-ps
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdIsAuthorized: username="myusername"
I [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Setting Sharp-MX-M550U-ps printer-is-accepting-jobs to 1 (was 0.)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(-----S)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files
I [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Setting Sharp-MX-M550U-ps printer-state to 3 (was 5.)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(-----S)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(P-----)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] load_ppd: Loading /etc/cups/ppd/Sharp-MX-M550U-ps.ppd...
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdRegisterPrinter(p=0x21183528(Sharp-MX-M550U-ps))
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(P-----)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(---p--)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(-----S)
I [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] New printer "Sharp-MX-M550U-ps" added by "myusername".
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Returning IPP successful-ok for CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer (ipp://localhost/printers/Sharp-MX-M550U-ps) from localhost
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 16 POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as myusername using PeerCred
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 16 1.1 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer 1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer ipp://localhost/printers/Sharp-MX-M550U-ps
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdIsAuthorized: username="myusername"
I [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Setting Sharp-MX-M550U-ps device-uri to "lpd://printer_ip_adress/lp" (was "file:///dev/null".)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(P-----)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] load_ppd: Loading /etc/cups/ppd/Sharp-MX-M550U-ps.ppd...
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdRegisterPrinter(p=0x21183528(Sharp-MX-M550U-ps))
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(P-----)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(---p--)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Discarding unused (null) event...
I [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Printer "Sharp-MX-M550U-ps" modified by "myusername".
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Returning IPP successful-ok for CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer (ipp://localhost/printers/Sharp-MX-M550U-ps) from localhost
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 16 POST /admin/ HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: Authorized as myusername using PeerCred
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 16 1.1 CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer 1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer ipp://localhost/printers/Sharp-MX-M550U-ps
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdIsAuthorized: username="myusername"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] copy_model: Running "cups-driverd cat Sharp-MX-M550U-ps.ppd"...
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Copied PPD file successfully!
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(P-----)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] load_ppd: Loading /etc/cups/ppd/Sharp-MX-M550U-ps.ppd...
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] load_ppd: Saving /var/cache/cups/Sharp-MX-M550U-ps.ipp2...
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdRegisterPrinter(p=0x21183528(Sharp-MX-M550U-ps))
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(P-----)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdMarkDirty(---p--)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Discarding unused (null) event...
I [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Printer "Sharp-MX-M550U-ps" modified by "myusername".
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Returning IPP successful-ok for CUPS-Add-Modify-Printer (ipp://localhost/printers/Sharp-MX-M550U-ps) from localhost
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] PID 3721 (/usr/lib/cups/daemon/cups-driverd) exited with no errors.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 16 WAITING Closing on EOF
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdCloseClient: 16
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: 15 from localhost (Domain)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 Get-Jobs 1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Get-Jobs ipp://localhost/printers/
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Returning IPP successful-ok for Get-Jobs (ipp://localhost/printers/) from localhost
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 WAITING Closing on EOF
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdCloseClient: 15
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: 15 from localhost (Domain)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 1.1 Get-Notifications 1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Get-Notifications /
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdIsAuthorized: requesting-user-name="myusername"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] Returning IPP successful-ok for Get-Notifications (/) from localhost
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 WAITING Closing on EOF
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:28 +0200] cupsdCloseClient: 15
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: 15 from localhost:631 (IPv6)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 GET /printers/ HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] argv[0] = "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[0] = "CUPS_CACHEDIR=/var/cache/cups"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[1] = "CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[2] = "CUPS_DOCROOT=/usr/share/cups/doc-root"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[3] = "CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[4] = "CUPS_REQUESTROOT=/var/spool/cups"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[5] = "CUPS_SERVERBIN=/usr/lib/cups"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[6] = "CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[7] = "CUPS_STATEDIR=/var/run/cups"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[8] = "HOME=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[9] = "PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[10] = "SERVER_ADMIN=root at oa-ThinkPad-T61"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[11] = "SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.4.4"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[12] = "TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[13] = "USER=root"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[14] = "CUPS_SERVER=/var/run/cups/cups.sock"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[15] = "CUPS_ENCRYPTION=IfRequested"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[16] = "IPP_PORT=631"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[17] = "LANG=en_US.UTF8"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[18] = "REDIRECT_STATUS=1"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[19] = "GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[20] = "SERVER_NAME=localhost"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[21] = "SERVER_PORT=631"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[22] = "REMOTE_ADDR=::1"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[23] = "REMOTE_HOST=localhost"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[24] = "SCRIPT_NAME=/printers/"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[25] = "SCRIPT_FILENAME=/usr/share/cups/doc-root/printers/"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[26] = "SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[27] = "HTTP_COOKIE=org.cups.sid=201e20ce997d2f6daf0e78de0e6c8f57"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[28] = "HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101206 Ubuntu/10.10 (maverick) Firefox/3.6.13"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[29] = "HTTP_REFERER=http://localhost:631/admin"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[30] = "REQUEST_METHOD=GET"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] envp[31] = "QUERY_STRING="
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] Started /usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi (PID 3722)
I [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] Started "/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi" (pid=3722)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSendCommand: 15 file=16
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] org.cups.sid cookie is "201e20ce997d2f6daf0e78de0e6c8f57"
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: 17 from localhost (Domain)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 17 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 17 1.1 CUPS-Get-Default 1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] CUPS-Get-Default
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] Returning IPP successful-ok for CUPS-Get-Default (no URI) from localhost
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] [CGI] show_all_printers(http=0x20bee910, user="(null)")
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] Script header: Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] Script header:
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 17 POST / HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 17 1.1 CUPS-Get-Printers 1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] CUPS-Get-Printers
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] Returning IPP successful-ok for CUPS-Get-Printers (no URI) from localhost
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 17 WAITING Closing on EOF
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdCloseClient: 17
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] PID 3722 (/usr/lib/cups/cgi-bin/printers.cgi) exited with no errors.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 GET /cups.css HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: 16 from localhost:631 (IPv6)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdAcceptClient: 17 from localhost:631 (IPv6)
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 16 GET /images/left.gif HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 17 GET /images/right.gif HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 15 GET /images/unsel.gif HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdReadClient: 16 GET /images/sel.gif HTTP/1.1
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Active clients and dirty files
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdAuthorize: No authentication data provided.
D [26/Feb/2011:18:32:36 +0200] cupsdSetBusyState: Dirty files
E [26/Feb/2011:18:32:50 +0200] [cups-polld printer_ip_adress:631] CUPS-Get-Printers failed: Not Found





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